This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

One year ago, Brian Thompson was shot in the back on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Five days later, Luigi Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in El Tuna, Pennsylvania with a ghost gun in his backpack,

and a manifesto in his notebook.

And right now, while most people aren't paying attention,

lawyers are fighting over whether they'll have any of that evidence in court,

whether we'll ever see a jury.

Kind of important stuff when you're talking about, you know, capital murder.

This is the suppression hearing that's going on right now. It started not that long ago. It's

continuing on. It resumes. And what happens in that courtroom could gut the prosecution's case before

it's ever at trial.

Depending on what a judge decides.

So here's what you need to understand.

A suppression hearing isn't about guilt or innocence.

It's about whether evidence was collected legally.

The defense is arguing that Altoona police questioned Mangione for 20 minutes before reading

him his rights and searched his backpack without a warrant.

If the judge agrees, prosecutors lose the gun, the manifesto in every statement Mangiani made,

which is kind of a big deal.

You can't convict someone with evidence the jury never sees.

And this again goes back to why good policing is important, training them appropriately before they get out there and know how to do their job effectively because all this affects the court case

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