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Luigi Mangione faces state and federal charges in connection with the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

His lawyers have argued his state and federal cases are parallel prosecutions and violate his constitutional rights

They had sought to have the terrorism charge dismissed if a judge ruled his state case should proceed

A judge on Tuesday dropped two terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in his state case in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson , but he kept the second-degree murder charge against the accused assassin.

Mangione appeared in court in Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 16, in beige jail garb, as his lawyers pushed to have his state murder and terrorism charges dismissed. Judge Gregory Carro said the evidence presented to the gran

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