NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors tried to use a 9/11-era terrorism law in their case against Luigi Mangione . But a judge ruled Tuesday that the state anti-terror statute doesn't apply to the killing of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive on a midtown Manhattan street last year.

The judge let murder and other charges stand against Mangione, who also faces a federal murder case in CEO Brian Thompson's death .

What Mangione no longer faces are New York state charges of murder as an act of terrorism .

If it sounded like an unusual application of a terrorism law, it wasn't a first. Such charges have been brought — and sometimes rejected — in other cases that weren't about cross-border extremism or a plot to kill masses of people.

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