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Prosecutors may have secured a conviction against Derek Chauvin, but legal experts say the case against the three other former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd s death is the harder one to prove. Their case isn t a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination, said Bradford Colbert, a Minnesota public defender and law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul.
Lawyers note the defense now has the advantage of seeing the state s arguments in Chauvin s trial and may claim that the other officers were simply following Chauvin s lead as the most senior officer on the scene that day.
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Prosecutors may have secured a conviction against Derek Chauvin, but legal experts say the case against the three other former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd s death is the harder one to prove. Their case isn t a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination, said Bradford Colbert, a Minnesota public defender and law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul.
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Rachel Paulose, professor at St. Thomas School of Law
Ted Sampsell-Jones, professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
THE ANSWER
The maximum sentence Derek Chauvin faces is 40 years in prison, but state guidelines recommend Chauvin be sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. Judge Peter Cahill will make the final decision on sentencing.
WHAT WE FOUND
These are the three charges Derek Chauvin was found guilty of and the maximum sentences for each:
Second-degree murder: 40 years in prison
Third-degree murder: 25 years in prison
Second-degree manslaughter: 10 years in prison
In Minnesota, those sentences won’t be stacked together. Chauvin will only serve time for the most severe charge. That’s a distinction that has confused some people watching the trial, according to Rachel Moran, a professor at St. Thomas School of Law.