Marc Agnifilo, the lawyer who spearheaded Sean “Diddy” Combs’s largely successful defense this spring, stood a bit off to the side from his colleagues, including his wife, Karen, as he awaited another client’s entrance into a Manhattan courtroom. A mix of tabloid reporters and online personalities sat in the gallery, turning their heads over their shoulders towards the door.

Across the street, a throng of protesters had gathered to chant “due process is a legal right,” “free Luigi,” and “healthcare is a human right.”

“No cell phones, no outbursts,” a redheaded court officer, a stern but polite fixture from Donald Trump’s criminal trial in the same courthouse last spring, warned. “Court decorum as always.”

And then, just before 9:30am, Luigi Mangione walked through the cente

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