The former Minneapolis policeman accused of killing a Black man by kneeling on his neck will stand trial alone, without three officers accused of aiding and abetting the alleged murder, a Minnesota judge ruled Tuesday, in part because of COVID-19 concerns. Judge Peter Cahill said in his ruling that the space limitations in the court house "make it impossible to comply with COVID-19 physical restrictions in a joint trial involving all four defendants," given the number of lawyers and support personnel expected. Derek Chauvin, who is white, has been charged with second-degree murder and other lesser charges in the May 25 death of George Floyd, after pinning his neck to the ground for nearly nine minutes.
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WMU Cooley Law School Associate Dean and professor Tracey Brame was named the director of the school’s Innocence Project.
WMU Cooley professor Marla Mitchell-Cichon turned leadership of the project over to Brame on Friday. Mitchell-Cichon had been the director of the Innocence Project since 2012 but has been working with the program since 2002. She will continue to work with the project on a part-time basis, serving as legal counsel.
The WMU-Cooley’s Innocence Project, which is a part of the Innocence Network, provides legal assistance to individuals who are imprisoned for crimes they did not commit by working to obtain post-conviction DNA testing of material evidence and unreliable forensics.
As it becomes obvious that President Trump may not be able to overcome the fraud stopping him from winning reelection, he is pardoning and commuting the sentences of conservatives wrongly targeted through the legal system. Last week, he commuted the sentence of conservative former Congressman Steve Stockman, who had served almost three years of a 10-year prison sentence.
Now he needs to pardon Jon Woods, a conservative former Arkansas state legislator. Woods is serving an 18-year sentence for process crimes involving a Christian college. Sound familiar? The left loves to target conservatives involved with Christian activities, and if they can’t get them on real crimes, they get them on “process crimes.” Woods was found guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. That’s right, no real crime, just the fact something was mailed, some phone calls were made and some money was spent. For example, “money laundering” sounds scary, but all it means