Overview

• Boelter pleaded not guilty to six federal counts, including murder, stalking and firearms violations, and waived the reading of the indictment at his August 7 arraignment.
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster approved prosecutors’ motion to designate the proceedings as a complex case, suspending the standard 70-day speedy-trial clock.
• Federal discovery is expected to include thousands of hours of video footage, tens of thousands of pages of documents and materials from more than a dozen law enforcement agencies.
• Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty, a choice that would require approval from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
• Investigators found a hyper-realistic disguise kit, notebooks listing about 45 political targets and a rambling letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, though Boelter’s motive remains unclear.