Judges delay Luigi Mangione’s state and federal trials | CNN

The New York state judge overseeing Luigi Mangione’s murder case on Wednesday delayed the start of his trial, hours after a US district judge did the same for the parallel prosecution playing out in federal court – reintroducing a scheduling conflict between the two cases. Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, faces dual prosecutions in state and federal court. His defense attorneys have expressed concerns about preparing for two trials simultaneously. The state trial was initially scheduled to begin on June 8, around the time prospective jurors would be filling out questionnaires for the federal trial, which was slated to begin in the fall. On Wednesday morning, US District Judge Margaret Garnett pushed back the federal jury selection process to early September to avoid prospective jurors being influenced by the ongoing state trial. Potential jurors would be responding to questionnaires while “there’s a massive press pool and a lot of attention on the state trial which is ongoing just two blocks from here,” she said. Hours later, New York State Judge Gregory Carro issued a two-paragraph order saying the state trial would now st