Requests to delay trial of Floyd s killer
By IANS |
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Tue, Mar 16 2021 12:03 IST |
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Washington, March 16 : The lawyer defending Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed African-American man George Floyd last year while under custody, requested that his client s trial be postponed, citing potential judicial bias in the wake of a settlement between Minneapolis city and the victim s family. I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday (March 12) related to the civil settlement, Xinhua news agency quoted Eric Nelson, Chauvin s lawyer, as saying to Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill during a hearing on Monday.
Prosecutor Steve Schleicher said the state had no control over Frey and the City Council, who announced Friday that Minneapolis had agreed to the settlement that Floyd family attorney Ben Crump called the large
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