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Supporters Gather as Luigi Mangione Returns to New York Court
Above: Luigi Mangione, center, attends a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court in New York, US, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Image copyright: Steven Hirsch/New York Post/Bloomberg/Contributor via Getty Images
The Facts
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing a healthcare CEO last year, returned to a New York City courtroom on Friday. Albeit an administrative hearing in Mangione's state case, supporters came out in large numbers, some arriving as early as 5 am with hopes of being admitted to the public gallery.
Chants could be heard from the court's 15th floor and one of those spotted in the public seats was Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted of espionage after leaking dozens of classified records to WikiLeaks.
Mangione was brought to the Manhattan State Supreme Court flanked by officers and wearing a bulletproof vest, remaining shackled by his ankles and wrists for the course of the hearing.
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
While prosecutors have more evidence to provide, they have so far handed over police body camera footage, police reports, surveillance videos and data from a cellphone dropped at the scene of the crime. Additionally, they have given autopsy reports, the medical examiners' forensic files and forensic DNA testing materials.
Establishment-critical narrative
The amount of evidence provided by prosecutors is threadbare in comparison to what ought to have already been received. New York Mayor Eric Adams and his police department managed to provide some of that evidence to documentary filmmakers, but not to the defense of the accused in this case. There are other constitutional issues and Mangione's right to a fair trial is in question.