Midwin Charles, CNN and MSNBC Legal Analyst, Dies at 47 “I’m just stunned, and have been since I learned of this today.,” MSNBC host Joy Reid saysRoss A. Lincoln | April 6, 2021 @ 10:09 PM Last Updated: April 6, 2021 @ 10:11 PM Getty Images Midwin Charles, a prominent defense attorney best known as a legal analyst for CNN and MSNBC, died Tuesday, her family announced. She was 47; no cause of death has been disclosed. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart and the deepest sadness that we announce the untimely passing of our beloved Midwin Charles,” her family said in a statement posted to Charles’ Twitter account. “She was known to many as a legal commentator on television, but to us she was a devoted daughter, sister, aunt, niece and cousin. Our lives are forever changed and we will miss her for a lifetime.”