UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO KILLING
New York prosecutors tried to use a 9/11-era terror-ism law in their case against Luigi Mangione. But a judge ruled Tuesday 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 case in CEO Brian Thompson's death.
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.
Here are some things to know about New York's anti-terrorism law.
Where the law came from
State lawmakers passed it in 2001, six days after the Sept. 11 attacks, saying the state needed "legislation that is specifically designed