Overview

• Judge Michael Fritz imposed a 180-day jail term with five years of supervised probation and stayed a 21-month prison sentence contingent on compliance.
• Mitchell will serve the time in Ramsey County on work release, a placement prosecutors opposed as atypical because the crime occurred in Becker County.
• A Becker County jury convicted her in July of first-degree burglary and possession of burglary tools after seeing police body-camera video and hearing her on-scene admissions.
• Carol Mitchell’s victim statement detailed persistent fear and a loss of trust following the April 2024 break-in at her Detroit Lakes home.
• She resigned her Senate seat a week after the verdict, a Nov. 4 special election will fill the Woodbury-area district, and her legal team plans an appeal and sought misdemeanor reductions.