Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO and father of two Brian Thompson, said in a filing on Friday that Pennsylvania police broke the law when they arrested him in December.
In a filing on Friday, Mangione’s lawyer claimed that police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, did not read Mangione his Miranda rights, which is required by the U.S. Constitution, Bloomberg reported. Mangione was arrested by police at a McDonald’s in Altoona on December 9 after a customer reportedly recognized him from “person of interest” pictures posted by the NYPD following the murder of Thompson on December 4.
According to defense attorney Thomas Dickey, police provided a “specious and unreasonable reason” for approaching Mangione, telling him he overstayed his welcome as a patron and looked suspicious. Dickey claimed that police never gave a reason for detaining his…
