CHICAGO — As Minnesota Governor Tim Walz celebrates the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, a man whose murder sentence he commuted to probation is facing trial for additional crimes he has been accused of since the Democratic nominee for vice president released him early.

Myron Burrell was sentenced to life in prison for murder in the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, who was hit by a ricochet bullet while doing her homework. However, when the governor served on the Minnesota Board of Pardons and Parole in 2020, Walz voted to commute Burrell’s sentence.

Burrell was 16 at the time of the shooting. Police said he shot Tyesha while trying to hit a member of a rival gang.

Two years after his sentence was commuted, Burrell was back and forth in court for two different arrests. He was first arrested in 2023 for unlawful possession of a weapon and fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance.

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Burrell, now 37, was arrested again in 2024 and faced a separate charge of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance after police found evidence of a controlled substance and a pill that tested for methamphetamine in his car.

Burrell’s jury trial for his 2023 arrest begins Monday morning in Hennepin County, according to court records obtained by The Post.

Burrell was originally sentenced to life in prison by Amy Klobuchar, then the district attorney, who pointed to the case as evidence of her tough-on-crime stance during her political career as she rose to the rank of senator.

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The case was brought to light again after Klobuchar ran for president in 2020, George Floyd died, and the Black Lives Matter movement called for police reform.

Burrell had maintained his innocence in the nearly two decades since his conviction. In 2020, an Associated Press investigation also questioned the case after the newspaper pointed out that there was no DNA, weapons or fingerprints directly linking the case to Burrell.

Instead, the case relied on eyewitnesses and prison informants who pointed to Burrell.

Ultimately, Burrell’s sentence was reduced to 20 years. Burrell had already spent 18 years behind bars, and the remaining two years were to be served outside of prison under supervised release, as Walz suggested. It was the first time in 22 years that a murder case had been commuted to a sentence in the state.

Walz said at the time: “We cannot close our eyes to developments in science and law when we look at this case.”

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He also addressed the Edwards family: “We are not here to revisit the crime against your family that took your daughter away from you. There is nothing I can do to ease your pain, and it will not make it any better. But we must act today and recognize that the laws have changed in this area. Justice is not served by locking up a child for life for a terrible mistake made many years ago.”

Jimmie Edwards III, Tyesha’s brother, spoke in 2020 about how difficult it was for his family to hear about their mother’s commuted sentence.

“When she lost our sister, she was touched by that tragedy. She never recovered from it,” Edwards III said of his and Tyesha’s mother. “I’m glad my mother doesn’t have to live through that because it would break her heart.”

The Harris-Walz campaign team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.