{"id":99709,"date":"2026-08-14T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/luigi-mangiones-attorney-with-todays-guilty-plea-mr-mangione-has-accepted-full-responsibility-for-the-death-of-brian-thompson\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:42:36","slug":"luigi-mangiones-attorney-with-todays-guilty-plea-mr-mangione-has-accepted-full-responsibility-for-the-death-of-brian-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/luigi-mangiones-attorney-with-todays-guilty-plea-mr-mangione-has-accepted-full-responsibility-for-the-death-of-brian-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione&#8217;s Attorney: &#8220;With Today&#8217;s Guilty Plea, Mr. Mangione Has Accepted Full Responsibility For The Death Of Brian Thompson&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Luigi Mangione&#8217;s attorney said Friday he has &#8220;accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson&#8221; by pleading guilty to two state charges of stalking and hopes that this will cause related federal charges (and possible death penalty) to be dropped.   Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/14\/prosecutors_speak_after_luigi_mangione_pleads_guilty_to_murder.html\"><b>Prosecutors Speak After Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty In Murder Case<\/a><\/b>  Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court to charges related to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson &#8212; two stalking counts &#8212; on Friday. He is still pleading not guilty to the murder charge. He&#8217;s also facing charges for weapons possession and having a fake ID. His sentencing for the stalking charges is set for Dec. 18.  Addressing the court, Mangione reportedly stated, &#8220;I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died.&#8221; He admitted to using a 3D printer to make a gun and tracking the executive after years of dealing with severe chronic back pain and frustrations navigating the health insurance system.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/14\/luigi_mangiones_attorney_with_todays_guilty_plea_mr_mangione_has_accepted_full_responsibility_for_the_death_of_brian_thompson.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi Mangione&#8217;s attorney said Friday he has &#8220;accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson&#8221; by pleading guilty to two state charges of stalking and hopes that this will cause related federal charges (and possible death penalty) to be dropped. Read more: Prosecutors Speak After Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty In Murder Case Luigi Mangione [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12978,3291,4077,613,2156,3842,23890,27112,30201,7150,5044,7611,3980],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}