A New York judge dropped the two most serious charges against Luigi Mangione in the state’s case against the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, Us Weekly can confirm.

Judge Gregory Carro said in court documents obtained by Us on Tuesday, September 16, that there was “insufficient” evidence to support the charges of first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism and second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism. He also noted that terrorism “has been famously difficult to define.”

The judge did, however, keep a separate count of second-degree murder unrelated to terrorism in addition to various weapons charges.

“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 coerc

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