By MICHAEL R. SISAK, The Associated Press

UPDATE:

A judge has dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against the Ivy League graduate.

Mangione’s lawyers argued that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty prosecution amounted to double jeopardy. But Judge Gregory Carro on Tuesday rejected that argument, saying it would be premature to make such a determination.

Reported earlier:

Luigi Mangione is due in court Tuesday as his lawyers push to have his state murder charges thrown out in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Also to be decided: a trial date and whether the state case or federal case will go first.

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