Luigi Mangione’s “case has touched a nerve,” said David Jaros, a University of Baltimore law professor. “This is a case that has inflamed the public.

The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day manhunt is scheduled to be in court for the first time since his December arraignment on state murder and terror charges.

Police subsequently arrested Mangione days after the shooting at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., and alleged that he was found with a “ghost gun,” fake IDs and a letter addressed to “the feds” claiming “parasites” in the health insurance industry “had it coming.”