Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of fatally shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, will argue a psychiatric defence during his trial.
Judge Gregory Carro said on Wednesday that Mangione’s lawyers informed him that they will assert that their client was in a state of “extreme emotional disturbance” when he allegedly carried out the shooting in December 2024.
New York state allows murder defendants to make the case that they cannot be held fully responsible for their actions because they were in a state of extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the killing.
Damn this sucks
That’s a pretty weak argument, but his only strong argument has to go against the system itself, lose, then fight it up to the supreme court and try to argue somehow that it was justified. He’s pretty much screwed because i don’t see that happening.
