The prison sentence given to the ex-wife of DOC Commissioner Paul Schnell has been upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Julie Myhre-Schnell, 65, pleaded guilty in 2025 to trying to kill their vulnerable adult son by putting crushed lorazepam into his feeding bag.
She was given a three-year prison sentence after she admitted to prosecutors that she tried to kill her son and “completely regretted” that he survived.

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