00:00Murders of Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, shooting of Senator John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman, and
00:07the attempted shooting of Hope Hoffman, are among the worst political violence crimes that we have seen.
00:15Today, the United States achieved the admissions and the agreement necessary for the perpetrator of those crimes to spend the
00:22rest of his life in prison without possibility of release.
00:26The direction that we had was that we will not seek the death penalty provided Mr. Belter enters into the
00:35plea agreement that you all saw him enter into today.
00:39And that was the only circumstance under which the death penalty was off the table.
