Luigi Mangione Appears in N.Y. State Court to Face Murder and Terror Charges

TIME

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day search, was in court Friday for the first time since his December arraignment on state murder and terror charges.

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00:00Luigi's right to a fair trial is being infringed upon because he is being publicly treated

00:14as guilty and as having the presumption of guilt as opposed to the presumption of innocence,

00:20which is what he is entitled to.

00:23I made a record in court today that I don't understand what this show of danger is for.

00:30When I go visit Luigi at MDC in Brooklyn, I sit with him, he is unshackled.

00:36He walks around freely in the visiting area.

00:39We sit in a room together without law enforcement hovering over us.

00:43But for whatever reason, here, despite all the law enforcement, they need him to be wearing

00:49this vest, they need him to be shackled, and they stand right over us and we get no

00:54time with him.

00:55So he is being treated differently because of this unusual, and frankly, just the fact

01:02that he's being prosecuted by three jurisdictions for one event.

01:06What I did not understand was how shocking it was that this week on HBO, in a documentary,

01:13I see the chief of detectives and the New York City mayor, full hair and makeup done,

01:19sitting down and giving an interview for television and talking about the evidence

01:23in Luigi's case, talking about police paperwork that we don't have, talking about forensics

01:29that we have not yet received.

01:31I guess we have now today, but I didn't when I was sitting there learning about the case,

01:35hearing an actor play Luigi, reading from a journal that they say is Luigi's, and we

01:42have yet to receive it from the prosecution.

01:46And so it's outrageous that they have time to go and prejudice Mr. Mangione's ability

01:53to receive a fair trial and go out and make these statements but not give this to us.

01:59One last thing is Luigi really wanted to thank the supporters for being here and we all appreciate

02:06it very much.

02:07Thank you so much.

02:17Stop denying!

02:20People are dying!

02:23Patients over profits!

02:28Luigi! Luigi! Luigi!

02:33Put the system on trial!

02:38One struggle, one fight!

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