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-0:00 Prosecutor Describes George Floyd’s Last Moments in Closing Statement Steve Schleicher, a prosecutor for the Derek Chauvin trial, the former police officer accused of killing George Floyd, focused his closing statements on describing in vivid detail the last moments of Mr. Floyd’s life. This is not the trial of George Floyd. George Floyd is not on trial here. You’ve heard some things about George Floyd, that he struggled with drug addiction, that he was being investigated for allegedly passing a fake $20 bill, that there was never any evidence introduced that he knew was fake in t...

April 19, 2021, 1:25 p.m. ETApril 19, 2021, 1:25 p.m. ET In opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a prosecutor showed a photograph of two $20 bills that had the same serial number, suggesting that they were counterfeit.Credit...Still image via Court TV The last three weeks of the Derek Chauvin trial provided jurors with a comprehensive understanding of George Floyd’s final moments, pieced together from hours of video and witness testimony. But there is one part of the case that lawyers for both sides have spent little time on: the $20 bill that brought the police to the scene in...

Derek Chauvin Declines to Testify as His Defense Ends After 2 Days The jury is expected to hear closing arguments on Monday and could deliver a verdict in Mr. Chauvin’s trial next week. “I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege today,” Derek Chauvin said on Thursday.Credit...Still image, via Court TV April 15, 2021, 7:25 p.m. ET MINNEAPOLIS — He settled into a swiveling chair, sitting upright and a bit stiff, in a mostly empty courtroom. Holding a microphone in front of his chest, Derek Chauvin removed a blue mask to reveal a clean-shaven face. As his lawyer, Eric J. Nelson, asked a...

How effective was Derek Chauvin’s defense? Vox.com 8 hrs ago © Court TV via AP Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney Eric Nelson on April 15. On Thursday, the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murdering George Floyd, adjourned for the week. Jurors will hear closing arguments and begin deliberating on Monday. For more than two weeks, the prosecution, a team of four lawyers, presented 38 witnesses to show that Floyd died as a result of Chauvin’s knee. They put on the stand bystanders who cried recalling the moment they saw Floyd die under Chauvin’s ...

April 15, 2021, 2:34 p.m. ETApril 15, 2021, 2:34 p.m. ET Black Lives Matter initials, written in chalk on the plaza outside the Hennepin County Government Center, on Thursday.Credit...Jim Mone/Associated Press The presentation of evidence in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, concluded on Thursday without testimony from Mr. Chauvin himself. Lawyers will give their concluding arguments on Monday, and then the jury will begin its own deliberations. Whether Mr. Chauvin would testify was a major question in this tria...