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Luigi Mangione
SDNY Questions
For Jan 9
Hearing DOJ Says
Searched With
Warrant
by
Matthew Russell Lee,
Substack
Book Patreon
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 8 – Luigi Mangione was
presented in Federal court on
December 19 on four charges,
one of them death penalty
eligible, for the killing of
UnitedHealth CEO Brian
Thompson. Inner City Press was
there, covering the case
toward a book.
On April 1 DOJ
announced it will seek the
death penalty against
Mangione.
In the
interim, after some push back,
Inner City Press published a
book Luigi Mangione Lone Wolf
here,
now Amazon here
On December 31
U.S District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Margaret G. Garnett
posed questions: "ORDER as to
Luigi Nicholas Mangione: In
advance of the conference
scheduled for January 9, 2026,
at 11:00 a.m., the Court
requests that both parties be
prepared for oral argument and
to answer the Court's
questions regarding the
Defendant's motion to dismiss
Counts Three and Four. The
Court will allot 30 minutes
each to the Government and the
Defense for this argument. As
of the date of this Order,
given the extensive and
excellent briefing by both
sides on the other pending
motions and the issues
presented by those motions,
the Court does not believe
oral argument on the remaining
motions is necessary or would
be helpful to the Court.
Second, the Court hereby
ORDERS the Defendant to submit
a letter by no later than
Tuesday, January 6, 2026,
indicating whether, in light
of the Government's
representation that it is only
seeking to admit the
Defendant's statement giving
his name as Mark and Mark
Rosario, he is still seeking
to suppress those statements.
Because the Defendant did not
address this issue in his
reply brief, the Court is
unclear whether that
suppression argument has been
abandoned in light of the
Government's representation.
Third, the Court hereby ORDERS
both the Government and the
Defendant to submit a letter
by no later than Tuesday,
January 6, 2026."
On the evening of
January 6, the letter was
submitted, on Patreon here
On January 7 the
US Attorney's Office filed
that "Local Rule 23.1 does not
authorize the judicial
remedies the defendant seeks
here" - full filing on Patreon
here
On January 8 they
added that they "searched the
contents of the defendant’s
notebook pursuant to a
judicially authorized search
warrant that expressly
covered, among other things,
handwritten materials,
including notebook entries,
contained within the
defendant’s backpack" - filing
on Patreon here
More on X for
Subscribers
here and Substack here
In the NY case
late on December 2 Inner City
Press emailed, then on
December 3 faxed and
hand-delivered, a letter
asking to be heard and for
unsealing, here.
After
handing in the letter and
getting it stamped at 10 am,
Inner City Press stayed in and
covered Justice Carro's
courtroom past 5 pm. Then:
Justice Carro
said, "Mr. Lee? Come up to the
rail." I did. He said, I've
read your letter. I intend
tomorrow to decide what part
of what is being presented
came be made public to the
Press. And on December 4 he
said it would happened. And
some did.
On December 18,
both sides rested and Justice
Carro said briefs due January
29 and March 5 with his
decision due May 18.
On unsealing bid,
more / extra on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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