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(NewsNation) — Federal prosecutors successful the lawsuit against Luigi Mangione, accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson past year, disputed allegations from defence attorneys that they person not provided enough grounds to enactment seeking the decease penalty.
In a filing past week, prosecutors responded to a question from Mangione's attorneys requesting an “informational outline” detailing the "aggravating factors” that are the ground for the decease punishment case.
Mangione’s attorneys claimed successful a July filing they had lone received “barebones, vague allegations, lacking immoderate accusation astir the facts upon which the authorities intends to rely” with respect to the decease penalty.
But prosecutors said they already provided capable grounds and that their “notice of intent” to question the decease punishment is the “only announcement to which the suspect is entitled regarding aggravating factors.”
The announcement outlined 2 main aggravating factors: Mangione’s “grave hazard of decease to further persons” and his “substantial readying and premeditation,” the filing states.
“Due process and the instrumentality simply necessitate what the Notice already sets forth,” they wrote.
Prosecutors said Mangione's "capacity for aboriginal dangerousness is … demonstrated by the cautious steps helium took to hole for the onslaught and program his escape."
Mangione “traveled from different authorities nether a mendacious identity, secured lodging with a forged identification, surveilled Thompson successful the days earlier the murder, wore a surgical disguise for days connected end, astir without exception, to fell his identity, and equipped himself with a homemade shade gun," they wrote.
“These actions amusement not lone the deliberate readying of this execution but besides the defendant’s quality to deceive, to get lethal weapons done unlawful means, and to evade detection,” they added. “Those aforesaid characteristics marque him exceptionally unsafe successful the future.”
Prosecutors said tribunal rules bash not necessitate prosecutors "producing and disclosing to the defence an outline detailing each portion of grounds it volition trust upon astatine proceedings successful beforehand — fto unsocial earlier a proceedings day has adjacent been set."
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced successful April that she was directing prosecutors to question the decease penalty against Mangione, describing Thompson’s sidesplitting arsenic “an enactment of governmental violence.”
Mangione has developed a nationalist pursuing since his arrest, and his ineligible defence money has received $1.2 cardinal successful donations.
He has been charged with stalking, a firearms discourtesy and execution done the usage of a firearm.
Mangione is besides facing authorities charges successful New York and Pennsylvania, including first-degree execution successful furtherance of terrorism, 2 counts of second-degree murder, weapons charges and a number of utilizing a forged instrument. The maximum condemnation for the authorities charges would beryllium beingness without parole.
