In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The retraction came just a day after Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory Carro that they planned to pursue a defense involving claims that the 28-year-old Ivy League graduate was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing.



Even without joke alibis, he clearly isn’t the shooter. He looks nothing like the pictures. Like, different bone structure and everything.
I hadn’t heard this before, you think this guy was like “I really want everyone to swoon over me, and will risk being prison pretty boy for clout!”
No, like, they grabbed a random person at the mcdonalds
And clearly planted evidence while illegally searching him.
Where did you see that?
The system doesn’t care. They need to prosecute someone for daring to kill one of the elites.