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Chauvin trial footnotes (3) I have posted two previous editions of footnotes to our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. My purpose here is to provide background on the legal issues in the case for those who seek to understand them. If you are certain that the issues constitute nothing more than a smokescreen for a predetermined outcome, these footnotes are not for you. I post these footnotes in the form of bullet points and differentiate facts and law from (my...

Chauvin trial footnotes (2) Last Sunday I posted a few footnotes to our coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. I posted the footnotes in the form of bullet points. Last week’s footnotes are included below under April 25. Today I want to add footnotes in the same form and keep this going as warranted: • Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder and two lesser included offenses. Minnesota law (i.e., Minn. Stat. § 609.035) follows a “single behavioral inc...

Copy shortlink: After a year of mostly virtual operation, Minnesotas federal courts are moving back into the real world. Criminal and civil trials will resume in the states U.S. District courtrooms beginning Monday, a sign that the COVID-19 pandemics grip on the justice system is loosening. On March 13, 2020, Chief Judge John Tunheim issued an order suspending in-person trials, grand jury proceedings and attorney swearing-in ceremonies, an unprecedented move in Minnesota...

If we played the Movie Pitch game, we’d call this Groundhog Day meets  Flap. The Twin Cities might end up with at least two more trials over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers. The Star Tribune’s Andy Mannix reported yesterday that the Department of Justice plans to ask a grand jury to indict all four officers involved on federal civil-rights violations, including the just-convicted Derek Chauvin: Now, with Chauvin’s state trial out of the way, federal prosecutor...

Feds plan to indict Chauvin, 3 other officers Ex-cop would face federal charges in two cases; three others just in Floyd case.  April 28, 2021 — 7:42pm Text size Copy shortlink: Leading up to Derek Chauvins murder trial, Justice Department officials had spent months gathering evidence to indict the ex-Minneapolis police officer on federal police brutality charges, but they feared the publicity frenzy could d...

A redundant prosecution? According to a source whose affiliation is not even hinted, the Department of Justice will seek federal indictments of Derek Chauvin and his three former colleagues in the death of George Floyd. The unidentified source leaked this and related news to the Star Tribune’s Andy Mannix. I assume that Mannix’s source is affiliated with the Department of Justice, either the Office of the United States Attorney for Minnesota or the local office of the FBI. Mannix does not n...

Police shot dead a 20-year-old black man outside Minneapolis on Sunday – a few miles from where Derek Chauvin was. is being judged For the murder of George Floyd. Police at Brooklyn Center in Minnesota said a statement officials sent a driver around 2pm on Sunday for a traffic offense, and then they learned he had a pending order. They started arresting him, but “the driver got back into the vehicle,” and then an agent shot him. Police did not release the victim’s name, however Identifi...

Tweet At first, the “breaking” tags on this story puzzled me, as the Department of Justice had already made their civil-rights probe into George Floyd’s homicide known. We’ve known that for at least two months, when it became known that then-AG William Barr refused to cooperate with a plea deal that would have ended the DoJ’s involvement in the case. And as Merrick Garland mentions in the video below, the DoJ had already announced that probe publicly anyway. Attorney General Merrick...

Minneapolis streets erupt in elation over guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin Hundreds gathered outside the courthouse to hear the jurys decision.  April 20, 2021 — 4:52pm Video (01:03) : Minneapolis streets erupt in elation over guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin in George Floyds death. Text size Copy shortlink: A cacophony of celebration broke out in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday afternoon, as a Hennepin Count...

After Daunte Wrights killing, criticism of "pretextual" traffic stops grows They net minor violations, target nonwhites, dont cut crime, research shows.  April 17, 2021 — 4:26pm Text size Copy shortlink: Cedrick Frazier has been thinking about the time when he was 17, driving his aunts old Ford Escort, and Chicago police pulled him over for a broken taillight. After officers discovered the car wasnt register...