April 22, 2021 at 8:20 AM
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The jury didn’t need much time to find Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd. It’s a result that means a number of things. That a jury is capable of convicting a police officer of murder when the prosecution isn’t bending over backward to tank the case, that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was correct in opting against a more difficult first-degree murder charge, and that for one brief moment, your non-lawyer friends are going to stop asking you questions about the Minnesota criminal code even though you keep telling them that you’ve done Trusts and Estates in New Mexico for 20 years.