FARGO, N.D. (KVRR: UPDATE 5PM) — The jury has not yet reached a verdict and has gone home for the night. Deliberations will resume Wednesday morning. Earlier in the day the jury heard closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense. The prosecution stressed the amount of time between Spencer Moen taking a video of his wife, Sonja, laying in…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged on Wednesday for trying to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. The bribe attempt, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson previously called “an attack on our criminal justice system,” brought…
Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.NEW YORK (AP) — The first day of jury deliberations in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial concluded after the panel sent their first two notes to the judge Wednesday afternoon, just a few hours after beginning deliberations. They requested to rehear jury instructions, as well as rehear testimony from…
Eric ReinboldTHIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A jury finds an Oklee, Minnesota man guilty in the murder of his wife. Forty-six-year-old Eric Reinbold was accused of stabbing Lissette Reinbold to death in July 2021 in their driveway. She was found by their children. Reinbold wasn’t arrested for nearly a month until a trail camera captured him near property owned by…
MINNEAPOLIS – The jury has begun deliberating in the manslaughter trial of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who killed motorist Daunte Wright after she says she mistook her gun for her Taser. Kim Potter’s case went to the jury on Monday following closing arguments and instruction from Judge Regina Chu. Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center police force after…
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Attorneys for a North Dakota man accused of wounding two Wisconsin police officers while he was on the run from an attempted murder charge in his home state are petitioning for a jury pool from a different county. Twenty-four-year-old Nathanael Benton of Fargo has pleaded not guilty in the shootings of two Delafield police officers in November…
GRAND FORKS, ND (KVRR) Jury selection begins in the trial for the man charged with killing a Grand Forks police officer and his own mother. Salamah Pendleton is accused of shooting and kiling 29-year-old Officer Cody Holte in an apartment in May 2020 while authorities were serving an eviction notice. Pendleton’s 61-year-old mother was also shot and killed. He is…
MINNEAPOLIS – A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a former Minneapolis police officer of killing George Floyd said deliberations were primarily spent trying to convince one person who was uncertain about part of the jury instructions. Brandon Mitchell is the first juror that deliberated in Derek Chauvin’s trial to talk publicly about his experience. He…
MINNEAPOLIS – An alternate juror at the trial of Derek Chauvin said she agreed with the jury’s decision to convict him in George Floyd’s death. Lisa Christensen said that she saw Chauvin as the leader of officers at the scene and that he brushed off warnings by bystanders that Floyd was in danger. Christensen said she didn’t know if she…
Judge Peter CahillMINNEAPOLIS – The judge who oversaw Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death said the jury will remain anonymous until he considers it safe to release their names. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill hasn’t publicly said how long their names might stay secret. Cahill told jurors that he will protect their privacy as long has he feels it’s necessary….
