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Luigi Mangione appears for a pretrial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, June 17, 2026.
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Luigi Mangione's lawyers withdraw plans for psychiatric defense
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In a court filing Thursday, Mangione's legal team said they won't file psychiatric evidence in the 28-year-old's state murder case. The move came a day after his lawyers said they planned to pursue a psychiatric defense.
The recommended flu vaccine by the FDA advisory committee uses the same mRNA technology that helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
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