Mangione Lawyers Seek Federal Trial Delay to 2027

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, accused in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, have asked a federal judge to postpone his trial from September 2026 until January 2027, arguing that the current schedule would force overlapping preparations for two major prosecutions stemming from the same incident.

In a letter filed Wednesday to U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett in Manhattan, Mangione's attorneys, including Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan, requested the delay to avoid what they described as an impossible conflict. The state murder trial is set to begin on June 8, 2026, in New York Supreme Court under Judge Gregory Carro, with jury selection for the federal case slated to start on September 8, 2026. The defense team plans to separately ask Carro to move the state trial to September 8 if the federal postponement is granted.

The lawyers contended that the back-to-back timeline would violate Mangione's constitutional rights to participate in his defense and receive effective counsel. They highlighted that Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty in both cases, would need to review up to 800 juror questionnaires for the federal trial during...