During the 40-minute hearing, Agnifilo asked that Mangione’s shackles be removed, a request that Carro denied “for security reasons,” ABC reports. She also claimed that there were “very serious issues” around evidence collection at the time of Mangione’s arrest at a Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald’s, suggesting that some of the prosecution’s materials might not be admissible.
“It is alleged that Luigi had a gun on him and had other property on him that they are going to use against him in all of the cases,” Agnifilo told reporters outside the courtroom “If there is a search and seizure issue—and again, we have to review all of the paperwork and camera footage when we receive it, before we say definitively whether we think there is one—but so far, what we are seeing is, we think there is a serious search and seizure issue.”
Following the hearing, Mangione—who has pleaded not guilty on all counts—returned to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he will remain until his as-yet unscheduled trials. His next hearings for the New York charges have been scheduled for Thursday, June 26. He is also scheduled for a hearing in Pennsylvania on Monday, February 24, on weapons charges, but it’s unclear if he will attend in person; the federal case against Mangione, which includes claims of stalking and murder, also has a hearing scheduled at New York’s U.S. District Court on March 19.
