Vance Boelter plea: Man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman pleads not guilty in federal court

Menabolis – The man accused of killing the great Democrats in the Minnesota home and her husband, and Senator and his wife, was injured, as not guilty on Thursday in the Federal Court.

Vans Poilter, 58, from Green El Iel, Minnesota, was charged on July 15 for six charges of murder, chase and firearms. The murder can bear the federal death penalty, although the prosecutors say the decision is several months away.

A Potler’s lawyer entered Politer’s call on accusations on Thursday. Boelter was in the courtroom and wore an orange shirt and yellow pants. Speak shortly to confirm that he understood the charges and thanked the judge.

When the prosecutors announced the indictment, they issued a handwritten letter, saying that Potter wrote to the FBI director Cash Patel, in which he confessed to shooting on June 14 to Melissa Hortmann and her husband Mark. However, the message does not explain the reason for targeting Hurtan or Senator John Hoffman and his wife Evit, who survived.

At the time, the federal defender in Poelter, Mani Atwal, said at the time that heavy charges were not a surprise, but she did not comment on the essence of allegations or any defense strategies.

On Thursday’s session, she worked before the American judge, Dolce Foster, as a conference to manage cases, where Foster issued a revised schedule with various final dates, although the date for a trial was not set.

Public prosecutors have moved to the appointment of procedures as a “complex case” so that the requirements of the standard fast experience do not apply, saying that both sides will need time to review huge evidence.

They wrote: “The investigation of this case arose from the largest chase in the history of Minnesota.” “Accordingly, the discovery that the government will produce will include a large amount of investigation and reports articles of more than ten different law enforcement agencies at federal, state and local levels.”

They said that the evidence will include thousands of hours of video clips, tens of thousands of pages of responses to dozens of major call notes, and data from many electronic devices that were seized during the investigation.

On Thursday, Foster agreed that the case was complicated and excluded from the requirements of the fast experience.

Potter’s motives remain mysterious. Friends described him as a evangelical Christian who had a political conservative views who were struggling to find work. The authorities said that Potter presented long lists of politicians in Minnesota and other states – all or most of them are Democrats.

In a series of encrypted observations to the New York Times through the electronic correspondence service in his prison, Potter suggested that his actions were partially rooted in the Christian commandment of his neighbor’s love. “Because I love my neighbors before June 14, I conducted a secret investigation for two years.”

In the messages published by the New York Post earlier, Potler insisted that the shootings have nothing to do with his opposition to abortion or his support for President Donald Trump, but he rejected the details.

“There is little evidence that shows the reason for its transformation into political violence and extremism,” Joe Thompson, an American lawyer in Minnesota, told reporters last month. He also emphasized that the prosecutors consider the killing of Hortman “a political assassination”.

Prosecutors say Potler has been hidden as a police officer and drives a fake band car in early 14 June when he went to Hoffman’s home in the suburb of Champolis in Minneapolis. Officials said he shot Senator nine times, and his wife eight times.

The authorities said that a Politer later went to the Hortanz house in the nearby Brooklyn Park and killed both. Their dog was so seriously injured that it had to be disposed of. Potler surrendered the next night.

The Associated Press Tim Sullivan, in Minneapolis, contributed to this report.