The Police Altoona Arrest Luigi Mangione gave him a hard snack to get his DNA: Lawyer

Pennsylvania police drew a quick one at Luigi Mangione when they arrested him at a McDonald’s Altona, according to his lawyer. The police offered him a strict snack so they could get their DNA, his lawyer said.

Also, the police violated Mangione’s rights, says his lawyer, when he confiscated his bag and threw them through the goods, telling the public that they had found a “manifesto”.

Lawyer Thomas Dickey said that police officers who first approached Mangione that morning, December 9, do not even have an adequate legal justification.

These accusations are included in the documents submitted this week in relation to the accusations that Mangione faces in Pennsylvania.

Mangione is now waiting for the trial in New York for accusations related to the 4th December 4-December 4-December style, Brian Thompson.

Mangione will first have to be tried in both federal and state courts, under accusations arising from homicide.

The documents submitted in Pennsylvania refer only to the smaller charges when he was first arrested, but the allegations against Altoona could become part of the New York case.

In a 36-page registration, asking the court to exclude evidence against Mangione, Dickey says that the “combined actions” of Altona officers at McDonalds have been “designed to not only expose their authority and control over (Mangione)But in order to restrict and reduce their freedom, said Dickey, arguing at the time of confiscation and arrest, the officers “had no reasonable suspicion of getting involved in such activity.”

“Any reasonable person, innocent of any crime, would have been thought that it was restricted if they were in the defendant’s shoes,” Dickey said, adding the actions of the officers violated Mangione’s constitutional rights.

The lawyer claims that Mangione’s DNA evidence is “poisonous fruits” of an illegal search and must be excluded from Pennsylvania.

As for Mangione’s goods that were confiscated, Dickey said the police had obtained various writings, including a red notebook and other hand -written works. These documents indicated that the accused attacker has developed a fix and increased wickedness towards United Healthcare and talked about the injury of his Monday CEO, ABC News law has previously said.

“The Altoona Police Department illegally confiscated a notebook that was supposed to have contained numerous personal writings covering a multitude of personal experiences of (Mangione)“said his lawyer.

“This characterization of (Mangione’s) Personal assumptions and personal writings are incorrect, improper and without justification and has no probative value, said his lawyer Dickey – and calling him “Manifest”, the lawyer wrote, was done so much in order to harm (Mangione) and put it in a negative light in front of the public; All in the effort to harm any potential jury basin. “

Mangione is accused of breaking down the United Cea, Brian Thompson, in front of the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan, on December 4, 2024, in a act about which prosecutors said he was premeditated, targeted and “intended to evoke terror.” He pleaded not guilty of state accusations. He has not yet introduced a plea for federal accusations.

He is facing three separate prosecution: the state of state crime in New York; another for federal accusations, including terrorism; And one third in Pennsylvania under accusations, including holding a firearm, falsification and provision of fake police identification. One of his federal accusations, the murder by using a firearm, makes Mangione eligible for death penalty if he is convicted, but has not yet been charged in the federal court.

His New York lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, has already predicted some of the arguments that his Pennsylvania lawyer has now made with his words in a Manhattan courtroom, that there are “very serious problems” with how the Pennsylvania police have achieved evidence from her client.

In this week’s records, the Pennsylvania Defense lawyer also claimed that when the police faced Mangione in Altoona McDonalds, she was pre -speculated and “based on a hunch”.

When the police in Altoona were sent to the Burger chain, they responded to a call about a “suspicious man who resembled the suspect who shot CEO in New York.” He was described as wearing a beanie and a medical mask. “

The call came after a five -day Manhunt for the CEO criminal, but “apart from the anonym (Mangione) He was actually the suspect sought in New York, before or at the time of their stop and/or in the investigative detention of his “client”, said Dickey.

The Altona officers “had no objective reasons for the mentioned restraint, apart from a suspicion and/or unarticarized,” he added.