Model prisoner Luigi Mangione whines about wearing handcuffs, bulletproof vest makes request to judge

Luigi Mangione doesn’t think he should have to appear in court with his hands shackled together and wearing a bulletproof vest.UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin has been a “model prisoner” at his Brooklyn lockup and thus should be allowed to wear “court-appropriate clothing,” when he’s back in Manhattan court June 26, his lawyers say.Forcing the 27-year-old accused killer to continue appearing with his hands cuffed and sporting the vest will “perpetuate a false narrative that Mr.Mangione is an unusual danger requiring extraordinary security measures,” his lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo wrote in a legal filing.The attorney called Mangione a “model prisoner” and “a model defendant in court,” who has been assigned an undisclosed work detail at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state charges that carry a sentence of up to life in prison, and to separate federal charges that threaten him with the death penalty....