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The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune will livestream the entire Derek Chauvin trial. The former Minneapolis police officer is on trial for the May 25 killing of George Floyd. You can also watch the archived video from previous days in the trial.
Day 13 in Derek Chauvin trial: 'Something was not right': State puts eyewitnesses first on stand
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NPR has an article on the makeup of the jury.
If I were going to be as cynical as I possibly could, my expectation would be that the play is to go for a big high-profile GUILTY! for the first trial, then go for an acquittal on the appeal.Report
The trick will be, on what grounds to appeal? Complaints about Jury makeup will probably fall on deaf ears.Report
They’ll appeal the sentencing, I imagine.Report
Legal Insurrection has a Day-7 Wrap Up and their take is that the prosecution had a bad day.
I am not a lawyer.
But.
This part right here has me saying “yeah… the prosecution had a bad day”:
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Gotta wonder if the prosecutor is taking one for the team…Report
You can’t rule it out:
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But maybe all that doesn’t matter:
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I mean…yeah the defense is saying “but he had fentanyl, he admitted he was high, he said that right in front of the police” and it seems to me like the prosecution response is “that makes it even more an act of knowing and intentional deadly assault, that they took someone in medical distress and put him in a position of further distress instead of rendering medical assistance”.Report
I mean, “he was gonna die anyway” is not a defense against a murder charge, because technically it’s true of everybody…Report
Exactly. And when the defense expert takes the stand, he will have to answer a question more or less like the following: “Dr. X, is it your testimony that George Floyd would have died if he had been left lying on the ground in cuffs for nine minutes without Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck?” If he says “No,” that’s game, set, and match. If he says “Yes,” he won’t be believed. Anything else is a wash.Report
Legal Insurrection is the Judge Judy of the legal webosphere.Report
They did a better job on the Oberlin stuff than anybody else.
Now maybe there’s a list of names that I should be reading on the trial in addition to these guys and I’d love to see that list.
But they built up enough good will with me for their Oberlin coverage to see their stuff as worth reading before dismissing it out of hand.Report
The first time the NYT sent this tweet out, they spelled it “trail”.
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