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Luigi Mangione is due in court as judge weighs legality of police seizing his backpack

Federal judge to decide if evidence from Luigi Mangione's backpack can be used amid disputes over legality of pre-warrant search in murder case.

  • Luigi Mangione is set to return to court on Friday, as a judge weighs whether to allow or exclude certain evidence from his federal death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
  • U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett wants to hear testimony about procedures that police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, said allowed them to seize and look through Mangione's backpack when they arrested him on Dec. 9, 2024.
  • Mangione's lawyers want Garnett to bar prosecutors from using certain items found in the backpack, including a gun police said matched the one used to kill Thompson and a notebook in which Mangione purportedly described his intent to 'wack' a health insurance executive.
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