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Speaker 1: Crime Alert im s he Grace Breaking crime News now

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Speaker 1: straight out to Nicole Parton for.

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Speaker 2: The latest Nancy. Lawyers representing Luigi Mangioni are requesting the

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Speaker 2: death penalty be stopped in his federal murder trials, citing

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Speaker 2: a reported conflict of interest involving Attorney General Pambondi, as

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Speaker 2: detailed in a recent court submission. In a filing submitted overnight,

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Speaker 2: the defense team accused Pam Bondy of neglecting to reveal

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Speaker 2: her affiliations with the lobbying firm Ballard Partners, which regularly

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Speaker 2: represents United Healthcare, noting that she was personally benefiting from

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Speaker 2: the firm's profitable ties to UHG. Mangioni faces charges for

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Speaker 2: allegedly killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York

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Speaker 2: City in December twenty twenty four. He has entered a

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Speaker 2: not guilty plea in federal court for stalking and murdering Thompson,

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Speaker 2: and is contesting the government's intent to pursue capital punishment

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Speaker 2: should he be found guilty. The defense contended that this

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Speaker 2: situation creates a conflict of interest that should have prevented

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Speaker 2: Bondi from instructing prosecutors to seek the death penalty. Quote.

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Speaker 2: Upon transitioning from Ballard Partners to the role of Attorney

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Speaker 2: General in twenty twenty five, the first individual she chose

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Speaker 2: to pursue execution against was the defendant accused of murdering

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Speaker 2: the CEO of her previous client. The defense filing stated,

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Speaker 2: the attorneys argue that Pam Bondi's financial ties to UHG

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Speaker 2: constitute a conflict of interest, warranting her recusal from any

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Speaker 2: decision regarding the case. Quote. The Attorney General's financial relationship

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Speaker 2: with UHG raises serious concerns about mister Mangioni's due process rights,

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Speaker 2: as she stands to gain financially from the prosecution's outcome

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Speaker 2: she is advocating for, they said. The United States Attorney's

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Speaker 2: Office for the Southern District of New York typically refrains

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Speaker 2: from commenting on active cases and is anticipated to provide

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Speaker 2: a written reply to the defense's claims. Meanwhile, Mangioni's legal

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Speaker 2: team has been working to exclude certain evidence from his

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Speaker 2: upcoming state murder trial. The recent filing in the federal

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Speaker 2: case incorporated elements from the suppression hearing to argue the

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Speaker 2: exclusion of the evidence from the federal proceedings as well.

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Speaker 3: What I did not understand was how shocking it was

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Speaker 3: that this week on HBO in a documentary, I see

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Speaker 3: the chief of Detectives and the New York City Mayor,

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Speaker 3: full hair and makeup done, sitting down and giving an

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Speaker 3: interview for television and talking about the evidence in Luigi's case,

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Speaker 3: talking about police paperwork that we don't have, talking about

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Speaker 3: forensics that we have not yet received. I guess we

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Speaker 3: have now today, but I didn't when I was sitting

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Speaker 3: there learning about the case, hearing an actor play Luigi

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Speaker 3: reading from a journal that they say is Luigi's and

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Speaker 3: we have yet to receive it from the prosecution.

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Speaker 2: The defense claimed that the search of Mangione's backpack was

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Speaker 2: unlawful as he was handcuffed distance from the backpack and

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Speaker 2: surrounded by Altoona police officers at the time. Given the

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Speaker 2: circumstances where there was no feasible way for mister Mangeoni

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Speaker 2: to access his backpack while restrained by officers, Therefore, the

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Speaker 2: search conducted at the McDonald's cannot be justified as a

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Speaker 2: lawful search incident to arrest, The defense argued the pre

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Speaker 2: trial hearing for the state case wrapped up on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: with New York judge allowing the defense until January twenty

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Speaker 2: nine to submit final written arguments regarding evidence exclusion. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: have until March five to respond, after which the defense

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Speaker 2: will have two weeks to reply. The judge expressed his

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Speaker 2: intention to announce his ruling on what evidence, if any,

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Speaker 2: will be excluded by May eighteen, at which time he

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Speaker 2: will also schedule the trial date.

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Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you. More private justice needs after.

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Speaker 2: This doctor Helen Gray Sanchez was found by an employee

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Speaker 2: inside a walk in freezer at a store in Miami.

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Speaker 2: The thirty two year old and an esthesiologist was found

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Speaker 2: inside the freezer of a dollar store in Miami on

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Speaker 2: December four. For the first time since her death, sanchez

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Speaker 2: family has broken their silence, saying they need answers and

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Speaker 2: want to have a proper funeral and resting place for

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Speaker 2: their loved one. They say they're waiting for authorities to

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Speaker 2: tell them what could have happened. The thing that the

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Speaker 2: family says they have been question is why was the

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Speaker 2: doctor not found until a day after she walked into

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Speaker 2: a freezer at a local store. Despite the unusual and

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Speaker 2: unclear circumstances of her death. Miami police say they are

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Speaker 2: not suspecting foul play, but that the investigation is ongoing.

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Speaker 2: Surveillance footage from the scene on the evening of December

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Speaker 2: thirteen shows the doctor walking into the walk in freezer

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Speaker 2: at a Dollar Tree store in Little Havana, a neighborhood

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Speaker 2: near Miami, just before they closed at ten pm. It

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Speaker 2: was the following morning that an employee found the body

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Speaker 2: of a naked woman in the cooler in the stockroom

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Speaker 2: and immediately called nine to one one. Investigators say they

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Speaker 2: are still waiting for the medical examiner's report into the

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Speaker 2: cause of death, which is currently listed as undetermined. It

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Speaker 2: is possible that after being trapped inside the freezer, she

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Speaker 2: suffered from hypothermia, which could cause paradoxical undressing before death.

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Speaker 2: This is a case where the sufferer becomes so cold

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Speaker 2: that they begin to feel as if they overheat, and

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Speaker 2: so often can strip off their clothing. Both of Helen's

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Speaker 2: children are from Nicaragua and have flown to Miami to

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Speaker 2: find out what happened to their mother. We remember her

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Speaker 2: as a loving woman and amazing doctor, and have no

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Speaker 2: idea how or why she wandered into a walk in

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Speaker 2: freezer in the Dollar Tree. They are cooperating fully with authorities.

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Speaker 2: The family is also saying that they're waiting for answers

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Speaker 2: wondering what happened to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: Tensions high between Chantelle Hudson and her mom after they

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Speaker 1: moved from Bishop, California to Dayton, Nevada. Just after Chantelle

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Speaker 1: starts her junior year of high school, Chantelle's mom thinks

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Speaker 1: her teen girl has fallen in with the wrong crowd

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Speaker 1: at her new school. Seven thirty Monday morning, Chantelle leaves

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Speaker 1: home on foot after an argument. Her mom reports Chantelle

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Speaker 1: missing when she's marked absent from school. Searches of Chantelle's

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Speaker 1: route to school turn up nothing. Several reported sightings turn

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Speaker 1: out to be misidentifications. Chantelle's social Security number no activity,

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Speaker 1: and extensive driver's license searches don't provide any leads. Chantale

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Speaker 1: Hudson now missing thirty six years. Chantale native American, five

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Speaker 1: to five, brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, has a scar

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Speaker 1: on her left ring finger a birthmark on her lower back.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Chantal Hudson, call Lion County,

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Speaker 1: Nevada Sheriffs seven seven five five seven seven five zero

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.