Legal experts say it s unlikely Chauvin trial will be delayed or moved
Judge Peter Cahill is currently considering a motion from the defense to move or delay the trial after news of last week s civil settlement. Author: Danny Spewak Updated: 10:20 PM CDT March 16, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS For a second straight day, Judge Peter Cahill said Tuesday he’s considering motions from Derek Chauvin’s defense team to delay the trial or even move it out of Hennepin County, although multiple legal experts told KARE 11 they do not expect the judge to grant those requests.
Judge Cahill already denied motions from defense attorney Eric Nelson to fully sequester the jury and provide his team with more strikes against prospective jurors. However, he has yet to rule on the motions for continuance (delay) or change of venue.
MINNEAPOLIS â When her 11-year-old son Jacob was kidnapped by a stranger in a mask holding a gun, Patty Wetterling wanted to know how this could have happened. What did the cops need to catch predators that they didn t already have?
That was 1989, and her questions led to the creation of Minnesota s first sex offender registry in 1991. Back then, it was a private list designed to quickly show law enforcement if convicted sex and kidnapping offenders lived in an area by requiring them to register their addresses.
Thirty years later, Minnesota s list has swelled to more than 18,000 active registrants, including juveniles, some not much older than Jacob was when he was kidnapped. Meanwhile, the name of Danny Heinrich, the man Wetterling learned 27 years later kidnapped and killed her son, would have never landed on that list because he hadn t been charged or convicted of a sex crime before Jacob.
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlors
ATLANTA (AP) â A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years.
Long told police that Tuesdayâs attack was not racially motivated. He claimed to have a âsex addiction,â and authorities said he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. But those statements spurred outrage and widespread skepticism given the locations and that six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.
2 jurors dropped from Chauvin trial after $27M settlement in George Floyd case
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In this screen grab from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, defendant and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, and Nelson s assistant Amy Voss, back, introduce themselves to jurors as Hennepin County Judge PeterCahill presides over jury selection in the trial of Chauvin Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV, via AP, Pool)
MINNEAPOLIS – A judge on Wednesday dismissed two jurors who had been seated for the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused in George Floyd’s death over concerns they had been tainted by the city’s announcement of a $27 million settlement with Floyd’s family.
Potential jurors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, one of the former Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s death, have been asked many predictable questions. Attorneys from both sides have asked potential jurors how they feel about the Black Lives Matter movement and about police. They ask how jury candidates felt when they saw the video showing Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck.
But some questions are less pointed, and their reasoning more subtle: Have you ever had to resolve conflict? Have you ever been certain you were right only to find out you were wrong?