A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione , the 27-year-old accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Judge Gregory Carro tossed charges of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree against the suspect. The decision means that Mangione now faces 15 years to life in the state case, rather than the 25 years to life that he had been facing.

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Carro declined to dismiss Mangione’s second-degree murder charge. The murder sus

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