Overview
- Following Friday’s missed sentencing hearing, the judge rescheduled David Wright’s sentencing to Monday.
- Prosecutors asked the court to force his appearance, while his lawyers said he was unable to attend without giving a reason.
- A Hennepin County jury convicted Wright last week of first-degree premeditated murder, which carries a mandatory life term without parole.
- Court records show Mariah Samuels obtained a protection order about three weeks before she was killed, and a Star Tribune review reported a responding officer left after four minutes and wrote she felt safe.
- Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara ordered a case review and departmentwide retraining on domestic-violence calls, as Samuels’ family seeks records and reforms and city auditors are expected to issue related reports this week.