Courts and Legal Procedure

The DOJ filed a 144‑page omnibus opposition, authored by Sean Buckley, arguing the federal death‑penalty notice in the Luigi Mangione case should remain on the table and that defense claims about pretrial publicity and other challenges are premature and manageable under controlling precedent. Concurrent state suppression hearings before Judge Gregory Carro have played body‑cam and surveillance footage from Mangione’s Dec. 9, 2024 Altoona McDonald’s arrest and focused on contested evidence — including a 9mm handgun prosecutors say matches the murder weapon, a 3D‑printed receiver/silencer, a loaded magazine, a notebook with writings about targeting a health‑insurance executive, a fake ID and other items — which the defense seeks to exclude as the product of a warrantless search and pre‑Miranda questioning.