A judge tossed two of the top counts in Luigi Mangione‘s state murder case Tuesday (September 16) morning, the New York Post reports.
Judge Gregory Carro threw out charges of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree, but kept the second-degree murder charge in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. Mangione, 27, now faces 15 years to life, rather than 25 years to life without the possibility of parole he would’ve faced had the charges not been dismissed.
Mangione still faces separate federal charges that carry a potential death penalty sentence if convicted. The 27-year-old previously pleaded “not guilty” in a Manhattan courtroom packed with at least two dozen women and six men watching in attendance on December 23, the New York Post reported at the time.
Mangione, who is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, was arrested in Altoona after a McDonald’s employee spotted him eating at the restaurant and believed he resembled the then-wanted gunman linked to the Manhattan shooting. The suspect was found carrying a ghost gun, masks and a manifesto linked to the incident at the time of his arrest, authorities confirmed.
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