Luigi Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork on Friday once again pushing for dismissal of his state-level case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson following his federal guilty plea.

Mangione pleaded guilty on 14 August to federal charges in Thompson’s grisly death outside a Manhattan hotel on 4 December 2024. The shocking plea came less than a month before his state murder and weapons trial, which had been scheduled for 8 September.

Thompson’s death spurred a sprawling search for his killer. The incident simultaneously elicited an onslaught of anger against the for-profit US healthcare industry, which has long been decried for putting their bottom line ahead of patients, to the latter’s detriment.

About an hour after Mangione admitted to two federal stalking charges, his lawyers filed paperwork to dismiss his state case. They have contended that New York state’s double jeopardy laws bar him from being prosecuted by the Manhattan district attorney.

Double-jeopardy protection under the US constitution does not bar state prosecution for the same crimes as a federal case, and vice-versa. However, New York state statute maintains that “a person may not be twice prosecuted for the same offense” and “a person may not be separately prosecuted for two offenses based upon the same act or criminal transaction”.

EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services... The documents (available here) show that WISeR has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm.

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“I think it’s more likely than not that the state case goes away with the federal guilty plea,” said Anthony Capozzolo, a former prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a former federal prosecutor with the Eastern District of New York.

Capozzolo expects New York prosecutors will be blocked from moving ahead “because it’s likely both offenses will be punishing someone for the murder of the same victim and the elements of the federal and state cases are punishing the same harm or evil.”

“Therefore, the offenses will not be deemed different enough to allow New York to continue to prosecute the case,” he said.

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The UN Chief of Police Summit will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York City on July 7 and 8. The conference, dubbed “Investing in Peace,” will feature security ministers and police chiefs. Discussions will focus on “strengthening international peace, security, and development for all,” a UN writeup claims.

Four previous UN policing conferences have focused on cooperation across law enforcement internationally.

Ben Gvir will lead a delegation from Israel’s national security ministry to the policing conference.

While Ben Gvir is not expected to face difficulties entering the U.S. to attend the conference, Israeli officials are reportedly concerned about the possibility of protests against his presence in New York City.

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I was watching sanford and son and the clueless cop said hasta luigi to the puerto rican neighbor and I just felt I had to share because I somehow want to start using it as a phrase.