Embattled DFL State Senator Nicole Mitchell (Woodbury) 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.
Some members want to wait to take action until the criminal case is resolved. Attorney Bruce Ringstrom Jr. warned that could be some time.
"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 has 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."