{"id":3606,"date":"2026-06-11T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:33:42","slug":"feds-wont-seek-death-penalty-in-plea-deal-with-man-accused-of-killing-top-minnesota-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Feds won\u2019t seek death penalty in plea deal with man accused of killing top Minnesota Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man charged in the\u00a0political assassinations\u00a0of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3604\">Socialite Rebecca Grossman and ex-Dodger should pay nearly $200 million in brothers\u2019 deaths, jury finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The defendant, Vance Boelter, was scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing Thursday morning in federal court in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General has authorized and directed the government not to seek the death penalty against Defendant Vance Luther Boelter in accordance with the terms delineated in a proposed plea agreement,\u201d assistant U.S. attorneys Bradley M. Endicott and Matthew D. Forbes wrote in a letter to the court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Boelter\u2019s attorneys did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The court filing did not detail the terms of the plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Former\u00a0Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman\u00a0and her husband, Mark Hortman, and\u00a0state Sen. John Hoffman\u00a0and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, were shot by a man who came to their doors in the early hours of June 14, 2025, disguised as a police officer and driving a fake squad car. The Hortmans\u2019 golden retriever was so\u00a0gravely injured\u00a0that he had to be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>Boelter, 58, was captured near his home in rural Green Isle late the next day after what prosecutors have called the largest search for a suspect in Minnesota history. He faces federal and state murder, attempted murder and other charges. His state case has been on hold pending the resolution of his federal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota abolished capital punishment in 1911 and has never had a federal death penalty case. While the Trump administration has pushed for\u00a0greater use of capital punishment,\u00a0there were questions about whether Boelter\u2019s case would qualify for the death penalty under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3602\">Commentary: In light of Kyle Busch\u2019s death, we need to talk about sepsis treatment<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors have called the attacks political. When they\u00a0announced the federal indictment\u00a0in July, they released a rambling handwritten letter they say Boelter wrote to FBI Director Kash Patel in which he confessed to the shootings. However, the letter didn\u2019t make clear why he targeted the Hortmans or the Hoffmans.<\/p>\n<p>In some messages to media, Boelter referenced a vague and cryptic \u201cinvestigation\u201d he had been carrying out, sometimes suggesting it was about the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian and occasional preacher and missionary, who held\u00a0politically conservative views\u00a0and\u00a0had been struggling\u00a0to find work.<\/p>\n<p>When Minnesota\u2019s legislative session convened in February, Hoffman got a warm welcome as he walked up the stairs into the Senate chamber. He said in a lawsuit filed against Boelter in April that his left arm and hand likely would never fully recover, and that he also had permanent injuries to his digestive and urinary systems.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yvette Hoffman was left with permanent physical weakness, the lawsuit said, while their adult daughter, Hope Hoffman, who was there and called 911 but was not shot, suffered severe psychological trauma.<\/p>\n<p><em>Johnson reported from Seattle. Former AP reporter Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=3600\">Pictures: England vs. Costa Rica Soccer in Orlando<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Vance Boelter in the 2025 shooting deaths of Minnesota political figures and their spouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Feds won\u2019t seek death penalty in plea deal with man accused of killing top Minnesota Democrat - 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