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Luigi Mangione’s Guilty Plea and Legal Fallout | Providence News
Luigi Mangione just pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges tied to the December murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and it’s throwing the state murder trial into chaos. His lawyers are leveraging “double jeopardy” to argue the federal plea should bar New York from prosecuting him again, though prosecutors fiercely oppose it. Found with a 3-D-printed gun and a chilling notebook detailing his plan, Mangione’s defense previously eyed a psychiatric angle for the state case — but that’s off the table in federal court. With trial looming next month, this high-stakes legal maneuver…
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