A judge in New York City on Tuesday threw out a pair of charges against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December of last year while he walked down a street in Manhattan.

Judge Gregory Carro did not throw out the entirety of the murder charges against Mangione, but said two of the most serious charges — murder in the first degree as a crime of terrorism and a second-degree charge related to terrorism — were not proven by the prosecution’s case presented to a grand jury.

The judge indicated that just because Mangione may have been motivated by ideological opposition to the for-profit industry, that does not de facto make it terrorism under New York statute.

“While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health ca

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