The alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was Luigi Mangione “Irritated” before his public outcry. Because when law enforcement officers hauled him inside a Pennsylvania courtroom this week, he had no lawyer to support him.
Mangione did not express his frustration to anyone after being captured from a prison Altoona, PA McDonald’s Monday morning, according to his attorney, Thomas Dickey.
During his outburst, Mangione yelled at a group of reporters who had gathered outside as police took him to the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, PA.
“He’s upset, upset about what’s happening to him and what he’s being accused of,” Dickey said. CNN Wednesday. “He had no legal representation until he walked into that building yesterday.”
“This is completely incomprehensible and an insult to the intelligence and experience of the American people!” the 26-year-old shouted.
Dickey took credit for working with Mangione inside the courthouse and calming his frustrations before he got into more trouble.
“I talked to him … look at the difference between when he went in and when he came out … now he has a spokesperson and someone who is going to fight for him,” the Pennsylvania-based attorney said.
During his appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett Out Front”, Dickey shared his skepticism about the NYPD’s evidence gathering and wants to look at fingerprint and gun ballistics evidence itself because of known flaws in the procedures during its use.
“Those two sciences, in themselves, have been subject to some criticism in the past with respect to their reliability, their veracity, their accuracy, no matter how you want to put it,” Dickey said.
Mangione’s defense team wants to see evidence and know how investigators collected the samples and results before having their “experts” look at the data to “challenge its admissibility and the accuracy of those results.”
On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed that bullet casings matched those found at the scene of Thompson’s fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan. The gun that Mangione had At the time of his arrest.
“First of all, we got the gun in question back from Pennsylvania. It’s now in the NYPD crime lab,” Tisch said Wednesday while briefing him on the investigation.
“We were able to match that gun to three shell casings that we found at the murder scene in Midtown,” Tisch told reporters during an unrelated press conference on Staten Island.
Mangione was charged in Pennsylvania barrage of allegations Which includes murder and gun possession.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and Dickey had requested the court to release Mangione on bail, which was denied at an extradition hearing on Tuesday.
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