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Derek Chauvin requests new trial after being convicted of George Floyds murder Joel Shannon and Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY Chauvin trial juror says he didnt feel pressure for a guilty verdict Replay Video UP NEXT The defense attorney for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday requested a new trial after Chauvin was convicted in April of second-degree murder and other charges in the death of George Floyd. Attorney Eric J. Nelson says in the motion that Cha...

Photo of Chauvin juror wearing BLM T-shirt at march raises questions of impartiality, experts say Paulina Villegas © Richard Tsong-Taatarii/AP Brandon Mitchell, a juror in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, on Monday, May 3, 2021, defended his participation in protest in Washington last summer. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP File) A photo that has surfaced in recent days of a juror in the murder trial o...

Legal Experts Flag Failure of Chauvin Juror to Disclose Attending Rally With Floyd’s Relatives A juror in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty in the 2020 death of George Floyd, failed to disclose that he attended an event attended by Floyd’s relatives last year, raising questions of impartiality, according to legal experts. Floyd stopped breathing while being pinned to the ground by Chauvin following an arrest for alleged use of counterfeit money i...

Chauvin’s ‘particular cruelty’ should mean harsher sentence, Minnesota AG says The former police officer faces up to 40 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder. By Timothy BellaThe Washington Post Share The Minnesota attorney general is seeking a harsher prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin due to the “particular cruelty” he showed in the murder of George Floyd last year, according to court documents filed Friday. Derek Chauvin Minnesot...

Blakely factors" in preparation for Derek Chauvins sentencing As reported in this local article, headlined "Prosecutors seek aggravated sentence against Derek Chauvin, argue George Floyd was ‘treated with particular cruelty’," the sentencing phase of the prosecution of the former police office convicted of killing George Floyd is now at the first briefing stage.  Here are the basics: Prosecutors asked a judge Friday to give Derek Chauvin a longer prison sentence for killing George Floyd, a...

Derek Chauvin, who was convicted on murder and manslaughter charges, deserved a more severe sentence after he inflicted "gratuitous pain" on George Floyd last year, argued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D).

George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure.

MINNEAPOLIS — “His name,” the prosecutor said, “was George Perry Floyd Jr.” These seven words were the first the jury heard from Steve Schleicher, a prosecutor, in his closing argument in the trial of Derek Chauvin. With them Mr. Schleicher, standing in a bland Minneapolis courtroom, answered a call from the spirited streets 18 floors below, where protesters, for nearly a year, had been shouting a simple demand: Say His Name. Over the course of the three-week trial that...

George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure.

MINNEAPOLIS — Hearing the prosecution’s medical experts, one after the next, testify that a lack of oxygen killed George Floyd was already enough to convince Lisa Christensen that Derek Chauvin was guilty of murder. Then the defense witnesses took to the stand — and they only solidified her confidence in the prosecution’s case. When one of them, Barry Brodd, a police expert, suggested that someone could rest comfortably in the prone position,...