Overview

• Jury selection concluded July 14 after repeated postponements tied to the legislative calendar and safety concerns following a lawmaker’s assassination attempt
• Proceedings are broadcast under a court-ordered ten-minute livestream delay with enhanced security at the Becker County courthouse
• Prosecutors intend to introduce 17 items of evidence, notably a blue crowbar found in a basement window and a flashlight hidden under a sock
• Mitchell’s defense maintains she entered her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home to recover her late father’s ashes and perform a welfare check on an Alzheimer’s-diagnosed family member
• If convicted, Mitchell faces a possible Senate removal vote that could cost the DFL its one-seat majority and a $12,000 restitution claim to cover her stepmother’s relocation costs