Overview

• Mitchell testified that she lied to police about retrieving her late father’s items, maintaining her true motive was concern for her stepmother’s Alzheimer’s decline.
• Prosecutors had introduced body-camera footage of Carol Mitchell stepping on her daughter in the basement and recovered burglary tools plus a backpack containing laptops and IDs.
• Defense witnesses, including family members, described Carol’s memory struggles and vulnerability as justification for Mitchell’s midnight welfare check.
• Prosecutors pointed to a lost note outlining steps to delete texts, remove contacts and disable GPS along with pre-break-in texts as evidence of planning.
• Jurors will now deliberate a verdict that could determine control of the state Senate by shifting its one-vote majority.