From the courtroom gallery, it was difficult to determine where Luigi Mangione was looking.

Two screens were playing on a loop—a video from almost exactly a year ago, of a faceless assassin gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street. Rows of court officers, reporters, and Mangione supporters sat behind the accused murderer on Monday, watching him as he watched.

The judge in Mangione’s New York state case ordered this week’s hearing after Mangione’s lawyers sought to suppress several pieces of evidence: the 9mm handgun and a notebook, which included what was described by prosecutors as a “manifesto” outlining his intent to “wack” a health insurance executive, recovered from his backpack when he was arrested, as well as several statements he made in

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