Prosecutors in the case against Luigi Mangione are pushing back against what they describe as an “intrusive” approach by his defense team, which seeks extensive details about jurors’ private lives.
Federal prosecutors submitted a response on Monday to the proposed juror questions from Mangione’s defense, although the specific questions have not been publicly disclosed.
Deputy U.S. Attorney Sean Buckley criticized some of these questions as being “unnecessarily intrusive.” Mangione faces charges for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Buckley’s filing specifically targets a question from Mangione’s defense that he claims pries too deeply into the personal lives of potential jurors.
Luigi Mangione appeared at an evidentiary hearing regarding the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, held at the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on December 18, 2025. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
He highlighted “Disputed Question 14(a),” which reportedly asks jurors to disclose personal information about their children, including ages, genders, occupations, and education histories, as particularly intrusive.
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Another question disputed by federal prosecutors asks potential jurors “how often they attend religious services.”
Luigi Mangione attends a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Dec. 18, 2025. (Shannon Stapleton/Getty Images)
“This question is inappropriate because a juror’s religious practices have no bearing on the juror’s fitness to serve,” Buckley wrote.
One of the other questions opposed by federal prosecutors asks if potential jurors have been “targeted” or “investigated” in a criminal matter, which Buckley says “is not appropriate.”
“Where proposed questions are duplicative, seek highly personal information unrelated to juror impartiality, or risk embedding advocacy and legal argument into the voir dire process itself, this Court should decline to include them,” Buckley wrote.
Mangione faces state and federal charges in his alleged assassination of Thompson, and his federal trial is scheduled to begin in October.
Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, in an undated portrait provided by UnitedHealth. He was shot and killed on his way to an investor conference in New York City in what prosecutors described as a politically motivated assassination. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP)
In April, a judge overseeing Mangione’s state court case moved the trial date from June 8 to Sept. 8. If convicted, Mangione faces life in prison.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mangione’s defense team for comment.
