Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D-Woodbury)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO/WCCO) – DFL State Senator Nicole Mitchell was back in St. Paul Wednesday where she appeared in front of a State Senate Ethics committee.
During the brief committee hearing, lawyers for Mitchell told the ethics panel that her first-degree burglary case would take months to resolve.
“So if that is a triggering moment for this body, we probably aren’t going to see that until this fall, November, December,” Ringstrom Jr. says. “Of course, it could be earlier, but that is my experience.”
The committee took no action but set a next hearing for July 25 at 11:00 am. Mitchell is set to appear next in court July 1. Wednesday was the second Ethics Committee meeting about Mitchell’s case.
Many in the Minnesota DFL party, including Governor Tim Walz, have called for her resignation but Ethics Committee Chair Bobby Joe Champion (DFL- Minneapolis) says that should not interfere with their proceedings.
“One of the things that I would caution us to is not to allow other thoughts of party leaders or anyone else saying someone should should resign,” Champion said Wednesday. “That is that person’s or the subject’s own decision and it’s not the decision of this body because we’re about due process and whatever happens, let that happen.”
Mitchell was arrested in Detroit Lakes inside her stepmother’s home. Authorities say she confessed to breaking into the home to retrieve her father’s ashes and other sentimental items after her stepmother stopped speaking to her.
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