New York prosecutors asked Wednesday that the state trial of Luigi Mangione, the man accused in the ambush killing of a health care CEO in 2024, start on July 1 — before the federal trial that is scheduled for later this year.
Mangione, 27, is charged with murder and other counts in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk on Dec. 4, 2024. He is also charged federally, and jury selection in that case has been tentatively set for Sept. 8.
“The State has an overriding interest in trying this defendant for the cold-blooded execution of Brian Thompson,” Joel Seidemann, an assistant district attorney with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, wrote Wednesday in the letter to state Judge Gregory Carro…