Luigi Mangione bails on psychiatric defense in UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination case

Luigi Mangione has abruptly withdrawn the psychiatric defense that threatened to become a central battleground in his upcoming murder trial over the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to new court filings obtained Thursday. In a one-sentence letter to the court, Mangione's attorneys informed Judge Gregory Carro that they were withdrawing a previously filed notice signaling plans to pursue a psychiatric-based defense in his state case. The filing offered no explanatio