A New York State Supreme Court judge has dismissed the terrorism counts against Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of ambushing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last December. Justice Gregory Carro ruled the state failed to meet New York’s legal threshold for terrorism, finding the indictment “legally insufficient” on those counts. The core state case—second-degree murder and related charges—still stands.

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The dismissal doesn’t free Mangione. He remains charged in New York with second-degree murder and weapons offenses. In a parallel federal case, prosecutors have charged him with murder and related counts; that track still exposes him to the possibility of a death sentence. The dual posture—state prison time on one path, federal capital exposu

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