{"id":89786,"date":"2025-07-18T05:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89786"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:07:59","slug":"forecast-partly-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89786","title":{"rendered":"Forecast:  Partly Convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whose bright idea it was to put Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL &#8211; Woodbury) on the stand yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It did not go well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Sen. Nicole Mitchell is grilled by prosecutors on cross-examination. <br><br>They&#39;re attempting to poke holes in her story that she broke into her stepmother&#39;s house to check on her. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5gQBpOjThb\">pic.twitter.com\/5gQBpOjThb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1945952208836612198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the defence was hoping the sheer overkill would spawn a sympathy vote in the jury?<\/p>\n<p>The ones who\u00a0<em>truly\u00a0<\/em>don&#8217;t deserve a sympathy vote &#8211; her DFL enablers::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know we&#39;re all disillusioned and numb. There&#39;s been so much fraud, corruption, and downright evil that we&#39;ve grown callous to it.<br><br>But this really should be the breaking point.<br><br>Every. Single. Elected. Minnesota. Democrat&#8230; all went along with shielding this person. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhIDpxf2AV\">https:\/\/t.co\/yhIDpxf2AV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ByaYhMNeHE\">pic.twitter.com\/ByaYhMNeHE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1945971649402019962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure whose bright idea it was to put Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL &#8211; Woodbury) on the stand yesterday.\u00a0 It did not go well: Maybe the defence was hoping the sheer overkill would spawn a sympathy vote in the jury? The ones who\u00a0truly\u00a0don&#8217;t deserve a sympathy vote &#8211; her DFL enablers::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89787,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786\/revisions\/89787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}