A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed two charges of terrorism against Luigi Mangione, the man allegedly behind the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. The decision came during Mangione's pretrial hearing earlier this week, which was the 27-year-old's first court appearance in five months, according to Newsweek. Justice Gregory Carro of the New York City Criminal Court ruled that while prosecutors offered sufficient evidence to support several homicide charges, including second-degree murder, there was insufficient evidence to support a terrorism charge under state law.

Mangione had previously been charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism and second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism. Prosecutors argued that Mangione's tar

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