The jurors recognized the Democratic Senator of the State of Minnesota, Nicole Mitchell, the two accusations of her burglary trial.
The jury needed three hours of deliberation to make the verdict after the fourth day of testimony. Nicole Mitchell was found guilty of first -degree criminal burglary And Possession of burglaries or flight tools To break into his mother-in-law Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, at home on April 22, 2024.
After the verdict, the head of the majority of the Minnesota Senate, Erin Murphy, Democrat, said that Nicole Mitchell “told her colleagues that she intended to resign if she was found guilty of this crime, and I expect her to follow this commitment.”
The head of the Senate minority, Mark Johnson, said that the verdict confirms that Nicole Mitchell’s actions “have not reached the level of ethical behavior we expect from elected officials, and his continuous participation in the Minnesota Senate leaves the body with a task on his file for each time his vote was the decisive vote in the legislation.”
In his closing argumentThe County Prosecutor of Becker, Brian McDonald, asked the jury to trust what they heard from Nicole Mitchell in images of the body camera.
“What the accused said in these moments stretched after being detained by the police is the truth, the period,” said McDonald. “She said she was there to take articles, and it easily proves her intention to commit a flight.”
In the defense fence, lawyer Bruce Ringstrom Jr. reiterated the affirmation of Nicole Mitchell, she burst into her mother-in-law’s house for a well-being check, which could be called “bad judgment” but does not correspond to the burglary.
“The state needs you to believe that Nicole Mitchell … would throw her career, that she would throw her family and that she would throw her ability to be a gap family for a shirt she knew she was going to get,” said Ringstrom.
Nicole Mitchell Pleaded not guiltyAnd during the trial, her defense argued that she was at home to check her mother-in-law, Carol Mitchell, who lives with Alzheimer’s.
The besieged senator I spent more than five hours on the control mark during the trialBenefiting from his relationship with her mother-in-law, the alleged fault that occurred on the death of her father and the lack of will and the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Carol Mitchell.
“I always remember that Carol was in my life and as a mother figure,” said Nicole Mitchell.
Carol Mitchell also took a positionTell the jurors that she and her daughter-in-law were not particularly close and saying that she felt “extremely raped” after finding Nicole Mitchell at home.
The jurors also saw images of body cameras of the police response to the call of Carol Mitchell’s 911 about the burglary, during which Nicole Mitchell said to an officer: “I know I did something wrong.”
Nicole Mitchell survived multiple expulsion attempts by his republican colleagues from the Senate, but the Caucus DFL of the body did it Remove the assignments of the Committee and Caucus meetings days after his arrest.
