Luigi Mangione's push to livestream his murder trial isn't about transparency, it's a stunt designed to pressure jurors, a former federal prosecutor is arguing.Lawyers for the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin argued in a Friday filing that the media access rules for his state trial are unconstitutional, and said the proceedings should be livestreamed.Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione's attorney, said that her team wasn't consulted on media access for the upcoming September trial, and only became aware of a document titled "Media Access: PSNY v.Mangione" from an independent journalist on X.MANGIONE LAWYERS SAY MEDIA LIMITS AT MURDER TRIAL ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, FEAR COURT WILL 'HAND-PICK' PRESSUnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, left, pictured in a corporate headshot.
He was killed on Dec.4, 2024, outside a Manhattan hotel while on his way to a shareholder conference.
The suspect, Luigi Mangione, is pictured in court on the right.(Businesswire, Steven Hirsch for New York Post via Pool)Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital he believes Mangione's attorneys want all trial proceedings to be livestreamed to pressure jurors, noting it's unusual for defendants to want more publicity."The conventional wisdom is that the defense usually doesn't want high-profile cases broadcast.
It can put implicit pressure on jurors to return a guilty verdict," Rahmani said."Mangione is probably the most popular accused murderer that I've ever covered in the past 25 years.
Has a fan base.There's upwards of 10 to 20 percent of the people who have been surveyed who believe that even if he did it, it was justified.
And I think the defense knows this, and they know that more attention creates the possibility of jury nullification, or maybe even an acquittal."PALISADES FIRE DEADLOCK FUELS FEAR THAT IDEOLOGY IS CREEPING INTO JURY BOX — AND MANGIONE COULD BE NEXTLuigi Mangione appears at a pre-trial hearing in Manhattan Cr...