Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal judge Wednesday to push his murder trial back until early next year, arguing that they cannot prepare for a separate state trial at the same time.

Mangione is set to go on trial in June in state court in New York City in the killing of a health care executive, Brian Thompson. Jury selection in his federal trial is scheduled to begin in September.

In their letter Wednesday, Mangione’s lawyers told the judge, Margaret Garnett, that they had discussed their request to delay his federal trial with prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, and they had opposed the idea.

The federal prosecutors are expected to respond to the defense request in a separate letter to Garnett, Mangione’s lawyers wrote.

“As a result of these competing schedules,” the lawyers said, “Mr. Mangione is now in the position of needing to prepare for two complicated and serious trials at the same time.”

“This scenario violates several of Mr. Mangione’s constitutional rights,” his lawyers said.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

By Benjamin Weiser and Hurubie Meko/Jefferson Siegel
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