Manhattan DA's office says Luigi Mangione defense spread false claims about murder trial media plan

Manhattan prosecutors asked a justice Monday to close what they called mendacious claims by Luigi Mangione's defence squad astir media entree to his upcoming execution proceedings and punctual the attorneys of their ethical obligations.

The filing came days aft Mangione's lawyers argued the court's program for nationalist and media entree violates his law close to a nationalist proceedings and alleged the Manhattan District Attorney's Office was progressive successful deciding which reporters would beryllium allowed to screen the proceedings.

Prosecutors denied the allegation, saying the bureau "had nary role" successful processing the New York State Office of Court Administration's media entree program oregon selecting journalists to screen the trial.

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"The defense's baseless accusation frankincense appears to beryllium thing much than an effort to dispersed misinformation astir this lawsuit and delegitimize the proceedings," Senior Trial Counsel Joel J. Seidemann wrote successful a missive to Judge Gregory Carro.

Luigi Mangione appears successful tribunal astatine 100 Centre Street successful Manhattan for a pretrial grounds hearing, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (William Farrington for New York Post via Pool)

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office asked Carro to punctual Mangione's attorneys of their ethical obligations not to knowingly marque mendacious statements to a tribunal oregon 3rd parties, citing New York's Rules of Professional Conduct.

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In Friday's filing, defence attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan argued the court's media entree restrictions magnitude to a partial closure of the proceedings successful usurpation of the First, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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The attorneys objected to the deficiency of an overflow courtroom, limits connected assemblage enactment sum and what they described arsenic a process allowing lone a prime radical of reporters to be the trial.

Luigi Mangione appears astatine a pre-trial proceeding successful Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York, NY, connected Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Mangione is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful December 2024. (Pool via Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

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They besides claimed they were told lone 68 journalists would person wide entree to the proceedings and that the enactment process had efficaciously been outsourced to a backstage lawyer representing respective bequest media organizations.

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Mangione's attorneys asked the tribunal to clasp a nationalist hearing, place the journalists selected to screen assemblage enactment and the broader trial, explicate however those reporters were chosen and item efforts to unafraid an overflow courtroom.

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They besides asked the tribunal to either broadcast the proceedings unrecorded oregon explicate wherefore that would not beryllium permitted.

Luigi Mangione arrives astatine an grounds suppression proceeding astatine the Manhattan Supreme Court successful New York City, U.S., May 18, 2026. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters via Pool)

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Prosecutors responded Monday that the defence had wrongly implicated the territory attorney's bureau successful decisions made by the Office of Court Administration.

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"The District Attorney's Office had nary relation successful processing the Office of Court Administration's media entree program for this trial, and volition person nary relation successful selecting which quality reporters be the trial, arsenic defence counsel surely knows from her agelong anterior relation with this office," Seidemann wrote successful the filing.

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Friedman Agnifilo and Mangione's spokesperson for remark connected the matter.

Mangione is charged successful New York authorities tribunal with execution and terrorism-related offenses successful the Dec. 4, 2024, fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan hotel. He has pleaded not guilty.