Luigi Mangione trial judge allows gun and notebook to be used as evidence

Other evidence found backpack must be suppressed, says judge, because McDonald’s search was warrantless Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The judge overseeing Luigi Mangione’s Manhattan state court trial ruled on Monday that some evidence gathered during his arrest would be barred from court. “The evidence found during the search of the backpack at the McDonald’s must be suppressed, including the magazine, cellphone, passport, wallet and computer chip,” Judge Gregory Carro said in his 18 May decision. Carro ruled, however, that evidence recovered at the police station was admissible, including the gun which authorities allege is the murder weapon. “The search of the backpack at the misconduct at the McDonald’s was an improper warrantless search,” Carro said in court while briefly summing up his ruling. “Therefore those items found in the backpack during the search at the McDonald’s will be suppressed. “The subsequent search of the backpack at the station was a valid inventory search,” he said. “The items recovered at the station will not be suppressed.” The ruling was released moments before Mangione appeared in advance of his highly anticipated trial over the murde