Luigi Mangione sick, pretrial hearing over evidence postponed

(NewsNation) — Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing has been pushed to next week, the judge announced Friday.

The public was expected to get another look at newly revealed evidence and bodycam footage Friday, and it will now have to wait until Monday morning after the judge said Mangione was ill.

Thursday’s proceedings included recordings of 911 calls, alleged getaway tickets and a “to-do list,” but the question remains: Will jurors see the evidence when deciding his guilt in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson?

Mangione’s attorneys have argued officers questioned him inside a Pennsylvania McDonald’s before advising him of his rights and said any evidence from that encounter should be thrown out of his state murder trial.

On Friday, proceedings were expected to focus on the patrolman who first searched Mangione after he was detained, and the officer who went through a backpack that was found with him

For the first time since his Dec. 9, 2024, arrest, the public has gotten a look at evidence shown in court, from a strip search of Mangione to pieces of what prosecutors are calling Mangione’s getaway plan.

Thursday’s evidence included a train ticket that allegedly puts Mangione in Philadelphia six hours after the killing, a Greyhound ticket for “Sam Dawson” to Pittsburgh later that night, a USB necklace, a portable hard drive, a camera, a Maryland ID, a firearm, gloves and a mask.

In the backpack, officers testified they found a 3D-printed pistol and personal writings denouncing America’s for-profit health care system and discussing an assassination plan.

Mangione’s defense team is pushing to suppress that critical evidence. If the judge agrees with the defense, some of the most damaging evidence against him could be kept away from the jury.

The proceedings could last into next week before a judge decides what evidence a future jury will see and hear.

NewsNation’s Anna Kutz and Safia Samia Ali contributed to this report.