Court dates were set Thursday in the case of Deea Leshawn Elliott, the 17-year-old Minneapolis girl who was charged in the beating of a former Minneapolis mayoral candidate at the Mall of America.
A hearing for motions from the defense will take place Jan. 23, according to Paul Young, division chief of violent crime in the Anoka County attorney's office.
He said that a pretrial hearing on prosecutors' motion that Elliott be certified by a judge to stand trial as an adult will be held Feb 3. The trial will start Feb. 11.
Elliott was charged with two felony counts of aggravated first-degree robbery and one felony count of second-degree assault against Mark Andrew, who was beaten when he chased a boy who stole his iPhone from a Starbucks at the Mall of America.
Bloomington police arrested a 15-year-old boy Wednesday on suspicion of stealing the phone and booked him at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center on a count of first-degree robbery.
Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain, 18, of Brooklyn Park, was also charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree assault.
The case is being handled by Anoka County because of a potential conflict of interest. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is a friend of Andrew's and endorsed him in last fall's mayoral election.
Maya Rao
