DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – For State Senator Nichole Mitchell, orange is the new black. The Woodbury Democrat made her first court appearance on a burglary charge in an orange jail jumpsuit – a day after being arrested, dressed head to toe all in black, after climbing through a back window in a Detroit Lake house during the night with a backpack. Yes, the backpack was black too. Mitchelllooked tense e during her brief court appearance before Becker County Judge Gretchen Thilmony. Mitchell acknowledged that she understoood the charge. Judge Thilmony released her pending a further hearing. Conditions for release included that she not contact her stepmother, in whose house she was arrested.
