His defense lawyer, Karen Agnifilo Friedman, requested that the top charge be dropped because, she said, it should not be applied to the death of a single person. The Manhattan District Attorney filed an 82-page brief opposing Luigi Mangione's effort to drop his terrorism charges.

Diary entries written by Luigi Mangione reveal the now 27-year-old’s detailed thinking before the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, a new court filing shows.