Prosecutors wanted to keep a 65-year-old Minnesota mother behind bars for nearly two decades for trying to kill her adult special needs son, but a judge rebuffed that request and sent her to prison for a far shorter sentence.

Julie Myhre-Schnell was sentenced to prison for three years after admitting that she attempted to kill her wheelchair-bound son by dumping crushed-up anti-anxiety pills into a feeding bag at his group home. Myhre-Schnell pleaded guilty in July to one count of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the December 2023 incident. Myhre-Schnell reached a deal with prosecutors in which she agreed to plead guilty in exchange for dismissal of the aggravating factor that the victim was "particularly vulnerable."

Prosecutors wanted Myhre-Schnell to go to prison for 1

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