Luigi Mangione’s much anticipated federal trial stemming from the murder of a top healthcare executive on a Manhattan street was tentatively delayed to 5 October.
The Manhattan federal court judge Margaret Garnett’s scheduling decision on Wednesday came after Mangione’s team requested a postponement of this trial, which had been scheduled for 8 September.
Mangione’s request relates to his New York state-level case in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The accused murderer’s Manhattan supreme court trial is scheduled for 8 June. The trial is expected to span four to six weeks.
Garnett said that in-person questioning of prospective jurors would start on 5 October with the trial beginning in earnest with openings and testimony on 26 October or 2 November.
Technically both sovereigns (Feds and State) can try him, but like so many other goddamn things the fact that both didn’t was a “norm”, not a hard and fast law.