Luigi Mangione‘s new protection legal professional spoke to reporters Tuesday afternoon from his workplaces in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Legal professional Tom Dickey mentioned he is been retained to signify Mangione, however didn’t provide additional particulars about his illustration. He said he believes Mangione ought to have been granted bail Monday … and emphasised Mangione didn’t waive his extradition in an earlier court docket look right this moment.
“I haven’t seen any evidence” that Mangione is the shooter, Dickey mentioned. “He’s pleaded not guilty, that’s all I care about.”
Dickey mentioned he got here onto the case “sometime prior to the hearing today” — it is unclear if he was court-appointed or employed. Requested if he may say who employed him, he mentioned “No … I can, but I won’t.”
As we all know, Luigi Mangione is accused of fatally taking pictures UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson early Wednesday morning final week in Midtown Manhattan.
After a 5-day manhunt for an unnamed suspect, Mangione was arrested in an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s Monday … when a buyer acknowledged him from broadly distributed suspect photographs, and an worker referred to as police.
Officers discovered Mangione consuming on the restaurant … with proof allegedly connecting him to final week’s homicide on his individual — together with the gun, a faux ID, and a handwritten manifesto, in response to police.
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Mangione is going through costs in Pennsylvania and in New York, the place he is been charged with homicide — he appeared in court docket in an extradition listening to. He was briefly seen by reporters as he was escorted out of a police car — when he shouted towards cameras, earlier than cops rushed him into the courthouse.