(CNN) — A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed two terror-related murder charges against Luigi Mangione , finding they are “legally insufficient” – though the 27-year-old still faces a count of second-degree murder in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.

Mangione’s defense had argued the charges of murder in the first degree in furtherance of an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism should be tossed because crimes of terrorism as defined in New York state legislation refer to attacks on multiple civilians, not a shooting of a single individual.

Judge Gregory Carro granted their request, writing in his decision Tuesday the evidence did not establish the killing of Brian Thompson in Manhattan last year was meant to coerce or intimidate a civilian po

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