New York, New York – The state murder trial of Luigi Mangione, who admitted to gunning down a health insurance executive, will be postponed following his guilty plea in a federal case, according to a judge’s order filed Monday.
His trial on charges of murdering UnitedHealthCare chief executive Brian Thompson was due to get underway next month, but that prospect was upended when he pleaded guilty in federal court Friday, and his lawyers moved to have the state charges dismissed.
There will be a hearing in the state case at the beginning of December.
In dramatic courtroom scenes, Mangione admitted Friday to killing the health insurance boss in a Manhattan street as he pleaded guilty to stalking charges before a federal judge…