The Murder of Brian Thompson: The Case of Luigi Mangione: Decision and Order on Suppression
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in New York City. Luigi Mangione's attorneys have argued that certain pieces of evidence against him should be thrown out. Today, New York Justice Gregory Carro issued an order regarding suppression.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya and today we're going to talk about a development regarding key pieces of evidence in the murder of Brian Thompson case. |
| 0:07.9 | Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder. |
| 0:11.9 | So at the heart of the matter here today, we know that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in 2024 in Midtown Manhattan. A man named |
| 0:22.8 | Luigi Mangione is on trial, or rather two trials for that case. On the one hand, he's got |
| 0:29.5 | federal charges, and that's going through the federal courts. And at the same time, he's got state |
| 0:34.6 | charges in New York. So recently,gione's defense team argued that they wanted |
| 0:40.8 | certain key pieces of evidence against him suppressed the state argued back saying no don't suppress those |
| 0:46.6 | so today um monday may 18th 2026 we finally have our answer on what the judge is suppressing |
| 0:53.9 | and what he's not suppressing, |
| 0:55.3 | because this is kind of a mixed decision. He is, he's keeping some things in, he's throwing some |
| 1:00.7 | things out, and we're going to talk about all of it now. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney. And this is the Murder Sheet. We're a true crime podcast focused on |
| 1:12.3 | original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. We're the murder sheet. And this is |
| 1:18.7 | the murder of Brian Thompson, the case of Luigi Mangione, decision and order on suppression. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you. on suppression. The The So the judge on the state case is Judge Gregory Caro, and that is the judicial officer tasked with the, you know, bringing this through |
| 2:21.1 | the Supreme Court of the state of New York in New York County. And he, this is a pretty brief |
| 2:28.1 | order. It's about 17 pages. Well, maybe it's not that brief, but I've had to deal with some |
| 2:33.7 | pretty long documents in |
| 2:34.8 | this case. So I was like, yeah. And I guess the kind of breakdown that I'm going to give you is |
| 2:41.5 | as I mentioned at the top, certain pieces of evidence are in, notably the gun found in Luigi |
| 2:49.4 | Mangione's backpack is going to be in the case. But there's also some things |
| 2:52.9 | that are suppressed. So I think it's important to maybe kind of contextualize all this. So I think |
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