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Defense set to take turn in ex-cop's trial in Floyd death | 2021/04/13
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Defense set to take turn in ex-cop's trial in Floyd death | 2021/04/13
The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death was set to start presenting its case Tuesday.
The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death was set to start presenting its case Tuesday.
Print Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The defense began its case Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin, seizing on a 2019 confrontation between police and George Floyd in which Floyd suffered dangerously high blood pressure and confessed to heavy use of opioid painkillers. Chauvin lawyer Eric Nelson has argued that Floyd died last May because of his illegal drug use and underlying health problems, not because Chauvin pinned him to the pavement with his knee. Moments after the prosecution rested its case Tuesday following 11 days of testimony and a moun...
The prosecution in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in George Floyd's death, rested its case Tuesday.