Mangione's federal trial over Thompson murder moved to 2027

Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg News on Apr 2, 2026

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NEW YORK — The judge presiding over Luigi Mangione’s federal criminal case over the killing of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson has pushed back the trial three months to January, the second postponement in two days.

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett on Thursday revised the start date for the federal stalking case, which she’d said on Wednesday would be Oct. 5. The change was made after the New York judge presiding over Mangione’s state murder trial rescheduled it to Sept. 8 from June.

State and federal authorities are prosecuting Mangione for the December 2024 slaying of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. The federal case originally included a charge that carried the death penalty, but Garnett dismissed that count in January. Mangione has pleaded not guilty in both cases.

Garnett had said she wanted to make sure that Mangione got a fair trial by avoiding trials occurring too close together and that potential jurors in the federal case aren’t affected by the publicity generated by the state case.

In her Thursday ruling, Garnett ordered that individual questioning of potential jurors will begin on Jan. 5 and that testimony would start beginning Jan. 25 through Feb. 12, “unless and until otherwise ordered by this court, should a further adjournment of the trial become necessary.”