There’s a huge update in Luigi Mangione ‘s ongoing court cases.
The 27-year-old, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson , just had two charges dropped.
Judge Gregory Carro dismissed two murder charges related to acts of terrorism on Tuesday (September 16).
The reason is because he said the evidence presented to the grand jury wasn’t strong enough to support a terrorism charge.
“While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health care industry generally, it does not follow that his goal was to ‘intimidate and coerce a civilian population,’ and indeed, there was no evidence presented of such a goal,” the judge said in his decision, provided by ABC News .
The rest of the indictment stays as is.
“We respect the Court’s deci