A New York judge on Tuesday dropped terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating a healthcare executive.
Judge Gregory Carro tossed the terrorism charges against Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a premeditated and orchestrated murder plot, according to multiple media outlets. However, the New York judge kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against the Ivey League graduate.
Carro wrote in a decision that, although the killing does not constitute a run-of-the-mill street crime, the alleged ideology behind the incident did not meet the standard for terrorism.
“While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health care industry generally, it does not follow that his goal was to ‘intimidate and coerce a civilian population,’ and indeed, there was no evidence presented of such a goal,” Carro wrote, according to the Associated Press.
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