Luigi Mangione maintained his cool, collected demeanor in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, even flexing for the camera amid a possible death sentence. The 27-year-old Ivy League graduate, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the middle of Manhattan last year, rocked a confident, unbuttoned look during the pretrial hearing focused on evidence suppression. While speaking with one of his attorneys at the defense table, Karen Friedman Agnofilo, Mangione looked directly at a photographer’s camera and gave a fist pump. Monday was the fourth day of pretrial hearings intended to determine if state prosecutors should toss evidence acquired by Altoona, Pennsylvania, police after they arrested him at a McDonald’s five days after Thompson’s death. Among the evidence discussed on Monday, which was found inside Mangione’s backpack, were a survival “to-do” list and a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. Mangione’s lawyers hope to bar federal prosecutors—who seek to pursue the death penalty—from using the evidence as well. Pretrial hearings resumed on Monday after Mangione missed Friday’s court appearance due to being sick from an unspecified illness.
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