Derek Chauvin Murder Trial: Live Updates On Justice In The George Floyd Case
Details on charges, legal strategy and more in the trial of the former cop charged with killing George Floyd.
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George Floyd’s death, Hennepin County Medical Examiner
Dr. Andrew Baker maintained under defense cross examination Friday afternoon.
Baker, a highly anticipated witness who performed the autopsy on Floyd testified acknowledging multiple medical issues that Floyd was living with before his fateful encounter with former Minneapolis policeman
Derek Chauvin and three other officers last May.
Defense lawyer
Eric Nelson continued the line of questioning that he had with other expert witnesses in an attempt to establish doubt in the minds of jurors that Chauvin kneeling on his neck was the reason Floyd could not breathe and ultimately lost consciousness and died.
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In this image from video, Dr. Martin Tobin testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Thursday, April 8, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. POOL
A person videotapes across the street from the Hennepin County Government Center, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Minneapolis where testimony continues in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last May in Minneapolis. Jim Mone
Another medical expert blamed George Floyd s death on the way police held him down, as an attorney for Derek Chauvin pressed the witness with hypothetical questions and other means to suggest that Floyd s drug use or heart disease killed him.
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Judge Peter Cahill told the jury that the next witness is a medical doctor, but they won t have time to complete his testimony Friday.
He adjourned early and told the jury to return at 9:30 a.m. Monday, after he and the attorneys sort out legal issues.
It s possible a family member or friend will testify as a spark of life witness Monday as well. I would expect the state to rest on Monday, said attorney Doug Kelley, who is serving as a trial expert for KARE 11.
Dr. Baker said he might have ruled George Floyd s death an overdose if found in his state in a locked room where other external factors don t exist. Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse) April 9, 2021
Chauvin Trial: Medical Examiner Blames Police Pressure for Floyd s Death Former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, 45, is charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death on May 25
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Updated on April 9, 2021 at 7:45 pm
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The chief medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide testified Friday that the way police held him down and compressed his neck “was just more than Mr. Floyd could take,” given the condition of his heart.
Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, took the stand at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin for pressing his knee on or close to Floyd’s neck for what prosecutors say was as much as 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man lay on the pavement last May.
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Defense attorney Eric Nelson cross-examined the medical examiner who performed George Floyd s autopsy Friday afternoon. Dr. Andrew Baker s testimony is expected to be key to Nelson s defense.
Nelson asked Baker to define the term complicating he used in his cause of death ruling, and he said from a medical perspective it s an untoward event on the heels of an intervention that happened.
Nelson also asked what other contributing conditions means. When you put those on death certificate as a physician, what you re saying is I think they played some role in the death, Baker said. You don t list trivial stuff on there that didn t play a role.