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topicnews · July 18, 2025

The Senator of Minnesota, Nicole Mitchell

The Senator of Minnesota, Nicole Mitchell


The jurors found the democratic senator of the state of Minnesota, Nicole Mitchell, guilty for both charges in their burglary process.

The jury took three hours to obtain the judgment after the fourth certificate. Nicole Mitchell was convicted Crime first degree slump And Possession of burglary or theft tools For the slump in Detroit Lakes at her stepmother, Minnesota, at home on April 22, 2024.

After the verdict, Nicole Mitchell, the majority of the majority of the Senate, Erin Murphy, “Nicole Mitchell” told the colleagues that she was planning to step down if she found this crime guilty and I expect to make this promise. “

Mark Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Minister, said the verdict confirmed Nicole Mitchell's actions, “that it does not correspond to the ethical behavior that we expect from chosen civil servants, and her continued participation in the Senate in Minnesota leaves the body for every time her coordination was the decision when the legization was adopted.”

In his Final argumentThe lawyer of Becker County, Brian McDonald, asked the jury to trust what they heard from Nicole Mitchell in Body Camera film material.

“What the defendant said in these tense moments after the police arrested it is the truth, time,” said McDonald. “She said she was there to take objects, and this willingly proves her intention to commit theft.”

In the closure of the defense, lawyer Bruce Ringstrom Jr. Nicole Mitchell's claim confirmed that she broke into the house of her stepmother in order to achieve a welfare test that could be called “bad judgment” but is not synonymous with a break -in.

“The state needs you to believe that Nicole Mitchell … would throw away her career, that she would throw away her family and throw away her ability to be a foster parents for a shirt she knew from which she would get,” said Ringstrom.

Nicole Mitchell not guiltyAnd during the trial, her defense claimed that she was in the house to see her stepmother Carol Mitchell, who lives with Alzheimer's.

The competitive senator spent more than five hours for witnesses during the processwho said about her relationship with her stepmother, the alleged gap that took place on the death of her father and the lack of will and Carol Mitchells Alzheimer diagnosis.

“I always remember that Carol was in my life and as a mother figure,” said Nicole Mitchell.

Carol Mitchell also took the positionShe told the jury that she and her stepdaughter were not particularly close and said she felt “extremely injured” after finding Nicole Mitchell in her house.

The jury also saw body cameras to the reaction of the police to Carol Mitchell's 911 call about the slump in which Nicole Mitchell told an officer: “I know that I did something bad.”

Nicole Mitchell survived several Experiments From their Republican Senate colleagues, but the body's DFL Caucus did it Remove them from committee tasks and Caucus meetings Days after their arrest.