On Luigi Mangione’s sixth day in court for evidentiary proceedings, defense attorneys sharpened their legal attacks against submission of a handgun and other items found in a warrantless search of their client’s backpack by local police in Pennsylvania.

Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9, 2024, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in the midst of a massive manhunt for the person who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Midtown Manhattan hotel five days prior.

Since Dec. 1, prosecutors and defense attorneys have scrutinized key pieces of evidence against Mangione in a multiday hearing before Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro — including a backpack that Mangione had in his possession when officers approached and arrested him in the dining room of a McDonald’s i

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