DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Fear and paranoia were common themes in testimony Wednesday as the burglary trial for a Minnesota state senator continued. On the third day of the trial of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, accused of burglarizing her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes house, prosecutor Becker County Attorney Brian McDonald each called witnesses.

Testimony will continue Wednesday in the trial for a Democratic Minnesota state senator accused of burglarizing her stepmother's Detroit Lakes home.

Jonathan Kuehl, Carol Mitchell's biological son, was the first witness to testify for the defense. Kuehl said he met his birth mother around 2003, and he met Nicole Mitchell years later, around 2008,