Stunning Reversal: Luigi Mangione Withdraws Psychiatric Defense
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🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Just one day after attorneys for accused Unitedhealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione announced an “affirmative psychiatric defense” they withdrew it. There was a Thursday deadline for Mangione’s legal team to provide details of their defense to prosecutors, that’s when they gave the court a one sentence withdrawing their previous notice. Now the question becomes, what possible defense could Mangione’s attorneys be considering for both his upcoming state and federal trials?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Friday, June 19th. |
| 0:09.0 | And what? |
| 0:10.1 | A quick and stunning reversal by Luigi Mangione. |
| 0:14.2 | On one day, he's essentially saying, yeah, I did it, but I was under emotional distress. |
| 0:20.1 | The next day, he says, nah, never mind. |
| 0:23.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:25.8 | Say what? |
| 0:27.7 | Say what? |
| 0:29.2 | The United Healthcare shooter is going to claim a psychiatric defense on Wednesday. |
| 0:34.7 | On Thursday, he said, ah, never mind. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah, I don't feel like that bodes well. Look, he's got a tough, tough mountain to climb no matter what from a defense standpoint. What do you mean, the surveillance |
| 0:46.0 | video of him shooting the guy? Correct. Okay. Then maybe his, what do they call it, |
| 0:50.2 | manifesto, his diary where he literally maps out in details, planning it and |
| 0:54.8 | then doing it. And then the murder weapon in his backlet? So you were saying? There are a lot |
| 0:59.4 | of problems for his defense team. But this certainly does not help. Whoopsy. Never mind. We didn't |
| 1:07.3 | consider the implications because, look, this is for his state trial. And in the state of |
| 1:12.5 | New York, this defense that I actually had never heard of before, an extreme emotional |
| 1:18.3 | disturbance defense, is only allowed in New York. You cannot use the same defense in federal |
| 1:25.5 | court. And that might have been part of the, oh, wow, maybe we |
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