Midwin Charles, CNN and MSNBC legal analyst, dead at 47

A prominent Brooklyn defense attorney and MSNBC legal analyst has died, her family said.

Midwin Charles, who also appeared on CNN and contributed to Essence magazine, died at the age of 47, her family said Tuesday. No cause of death was provided. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart and the deepest sadness that we announce the untimely passing of our beloved Midwin Charles,” they wrote on her Twitter account.