A judge okayed a laptop for accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione to get a laptop behind bars — if his jailers agree — so he can examine material in his case. Judge Gregory Carro wrote that he had “no objection” to Mangione’s request for the device, which would be set up to allow him only to review case materials, reports the Associated Press. Carro said that it’s up to federal authorities who oversee the lockup where Mangione is awaiting trial in the shooting death of Brian Thompson, who headed the largest U.S. health insurer. Thompson was ambushed while walking to a Manhattan hotel where the company was holding an investor meeting. Mangione, a prep school and Ivy League graduate whose family had reported him missing, faces New York charges that include murder as an act of terrorism as well as a federal murder charge. He is being held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Carro’s order came after he met virtually with prosecutors and Mangione’s lawyers Thursday. Mangione’s lawyers had asked that he get a laptop to view a vast amount of documents, video and other items that prosecutors have gathered and turned over to the defense. The attorneys said the material is so voluminous that he can’t view it on the lockup’s shared computers for inmates, nor go over it all during visiting hours with his attorneys, so he needs a dedicated laptop. The Manhattan district attorney’s office objected to the laptop request. Prosecutors argued that Mangione’s lawyers could show him the key case material. Prosecutors said that someone slipped a handwritten, heart-shaped note of encouragement into socks for Mangione to wear to court last month. A court officer intercepted the message before socks got to Mangione.
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