Overview
- Federal prosecutors filed a court letter Wednesday seeking a change-of-plea hearing set for Thursday at 10 a.m. in Minneapolis and submitted a proposed plea agreement to the judge.
- The filing says Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized prosecutors not to seek the death penalty in accordance with terms in the proposed agreement.
- Boelter is accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and of shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in attacks on June 14, 2025 that prosecutors have described as political.
- The proposed plea agreement is sealed and will not become public until Boelter formally enters a guilty plea, while his pending state charges for first-degree murder and the Hoffman family’s civil lawsuit remain active.
- Prosecutors have cited a handwritten letter they attribute to Boelter as part of the federal case and noted he was captured after what law enforcement called one of Minnesota’s largest searches for a suspect.