Notes smuggled to Luigi Mangione, hidden in socks
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Two handwritten notes were concealed in socks delivered to Luigi Mangione, accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Mangione's lawyers asked Monday that he get a laptop to view a vast amount of documents, video and other items that prosecutors have gathered and turned over to the defense so far.
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Luigi Mangione violated the "special treatment" he was afforded for his last court appearance when handwritten notes were secreted inside a pair of argyle socks.
Prosecutors do not want accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione to have a laptop in prison​, and are taking issue with what he was given to wear for a recent court appearance.
Prosecutors said Mangione received a heart-shaped note tucked into a pair of socks last month, offering encouraging words for his upcoming trial.
A judge has cleared the way for the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO to get a laptop behind bars if his jailers allow it.
Manhattan prosecutors had argued heart-shaped notes smuggled in Mangione's socks showed yet again his "sympathizers" posed a security risk.
The socks were included in clothes his defense team gave him for a hearing in Manhattan last month, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
Luigi Mangione's request to get a laptop in jail is now up to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, where he is awaiting trial.
Someone tucked a heart-shaped note of encouragement into a pair of socks packed for Luigi Mangione to wear to a court recently in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case.
Mangione will not have access to the internet on his specially configured laptop. The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate charged with gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a street in midtown Manhattan,
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