{"id":160122,"date":"2026-08-10T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/judge-scolds-luigi-mangione-counsel-over-reckless-comments-about-public-access\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:51:48","slug":"judge-scolds-luigi-mangione-counsel-over-reckless-comments-about-public-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/judge-scolds-luigi-mangione-counsel-over-reckless-comments-about-public-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Scolds Luigi Mangione Counsel Over ‘Reckless’ Comments About Public Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Manhattan judge sharply criticized Luigi Mangione’s defense team for suggesting that court officials and prosecutors were limiting public access to his upcoming murder trial, calling the allegations a “reckless mischaracterization” of efforts to accommodate the press and public. The judge also announced that the jury will be anonymous as jury selection approaches next month.<\/p>\n

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A Manhattan judge sharply criticized Luigi Mangione’s defense team for suggesting that court officials and prosecutors were limiting public access to his upcoming murder trial, calling the allegations a “reckless mischaracterization” of efforts to accommodate the press and public. The judge also announced that the jury will be anonymous as jury selection approaches next month.<\/p>\n

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A Manhattan judge sharply criticized Luigi Mangione’s defense team for suggesting that court officials and prosecutors were limiting public access to his upcoming murder trial, calling the allegations a “reckless mischaracterization” of efforts to accommodate the press and public. The judge also announced that the jury will be anonymous as jury selection approaches next month. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-p2Febx.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}