Luigi Mangione's defense team is making another pretrial push ahead of the accused CEO killer's next court appearance, asking a federal judge to let him ditch his jail attire and wear civilian clothing in a closely watched New York hearing.Mangione, who is being held in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, is scheduled to appear Aug.11 before New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro for a status conference.Because he remains in federal custody, defense attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan asked U.S.
District Judge Margaret Garnett to order the Bureau of Prisons and Metropolitan Detention Center officials to accept civilian clothing for Mangione's Aug.11 court appearance, including a suit, shirt, socks and a pair of shoes without laces.MANGIONE LAWYERS SAY MEDIA LIMITS AT MURDER TRIAL ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, FEAR COURT WILL 'HAND-PICK' PRESSIn the proposed order attached to the filing, Mangione's attorneys also asked that the Metropolitan Detention Center permit him to wear the civilian clothing while being transported to court for the Aug.
11 hearing.Luigi Mangione appears at an evidence suppression hearing at the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York City, U.S., May 18, 2026.(Steven Hirsch/New York Post via Pool)FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X"Mr.
Mangione ...does not have civilian clothes to wear for the court appearance," the filing states.
"We therefore request – without objection from Judge Carro or the government – that this Court order the Bureau of Prisons and the MDC to accept" the clothing.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWSThe filing says Carro and prosecutors do not oppose the request, a routine procedural step for defendants in federal custody appearing in another court system.Luigi Mangione appears at a pre-trial hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, NY, Wednesday, June 17, 2026.(Pool via Barry Williams for New York Daily News)LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FO...