US EditionOpening Statements Set to Begin Tuesday in Senator Nicole Mitchell Trial
DETROIT LAKES, MINNESOTA, JUL 15 – Senator Nicole Mitchell faces first-degree burglary charges after entering her stepmother's home to retrieve belongings of her deceased father, with potential prison time if convicted.
- Opening statements began on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Minnesota for State Senator Nicole Mitchell's felony burglary trial in Becker County.
- Mitchell was charged after police discovered her breaking into her stepmother's Detroit Lakes residence shortly before dawn on April 22, 2024, with her intent being contested.
- The defense argues that Mitchell entered the home to look after her stepmother, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, while the prosecution offers evidence of forced entry with burglary tools and highlights Mitchell’s admissions of wrongdoing.
- Prosecutor Brian McDonald urged jurors to remember Mitchell's own words at arrest, while defense attorney Bruce Ringstrom argued that intent to check on family must lead to acquittal.
- The jury of 15 was seated July 14, and the trial is expected to last about a week, with Mitchell likely to testify and facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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Sen. Nicole Mitchell burglary trial: Stepmother struggles to recall key details
DETROIT LAKES — The prosecution and defense in the felony burglary trial of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, made opening statements Tuesday, but the most influential moments for jurors may wind up being the imperfect memory of the case’s key witness:…
Opening arguments heard in Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s burglary trial
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Opening arguments in the burglary case for a Minnesota state senator Tuesday painted her in two different lights — prosecutors said she was a person intent on stealing while the defense portrayed her as a concerned stepdaughter. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmaker from Woodbury, was charged with two felony burglary counts after she was arrested in her stepmother’s ho…
Nicole Mitchell burglary trial plows forward with opening statements, witnesses testimony - Austin Daily Herald
By Mathew Holding Eagle III and Peter Cox Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s burglary trial got into the heart of the case Tuesday with both the prosecution and defense offering their versions of her early-morning, unannounced presence in the Detroit Lakes home of her stepmother in April 2024. But the attorneys parted ways when explaining what led up to an arrest and whether it fit the definition of burglary, as she is charged with in the felony case that c…
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Attorneys focus on intent during opening arguments of Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s burglary trial
DETROIT LAKES — Opening arguments in the burglary case for a Minnesota state senator paint her in two different lights: one as a person who intended to steal and one as a concerned stepdaughter. Attorneys for the state of Minnesota and Sen. Nicole Mitchell outlined their positions in opening arguments for the trial Tuesday morning, July 15. Later, the first witnesses took the stand. Mitchell, a Democratic-Farmer-Laborer lawmaker from Woodbury, w…
Trial of State Senator Nicole Mitchell begins in Becker County
Opening statements begin at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in the felony burglary trial of Democratic State Senator Nicole Mitchell. She’s facing felony burglary charges after allegedly breaking into her deceased father’s home.
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