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Chauvin Trial Day 8 Wrap-Up: “I Ate Too Many Drugs” Video May Be Game-Changer
Legal Insurrectionblog ^ | 04/07/2021 | Andrew Branca

Posted on 04/08/2021 6:58:16 AM PDT by ScubaDiver

Once again the defense weaponizes prosecution ‘expert’ witnesses against the prosecution case.

Today’s testimony began with the continuation of the direct questioning by Prosecutor Schleiter of Sergeant Jody Stiger, of the Los Angeles Police Department, who has been retained by the state prosecutors as an expert witness on use-of-force tactics and policy.

You’ll recall that the direct of Stiger began yesterday afternoon and ran for 30 minutes, until Judge Cahill decided to call it a day. That direct continued today for about another 45 minutes, before the witness was turned over to the defense.

Here’s a leading indicator that state-paid use-of-force expert witness Stiger was ultimately more favorable to the defense than he was to the prosecutors who’d paid him $13,000 to provide his expertise to help convict Chauvin: Whereas the State spent about 75 minutes questioning their own expert, Defense Counsel Nelson spent more than 90 minutes doing so.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: blm; chauvin; floyd; minneapolis
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Another wholly unhelpful day of testimony for the prosecution as they continue to present their case-in-chief. Reasonable doubt has been sewn many times over by the defense and they haven't even had their crack at it yet. I think it's fair to say that the state hasn't even demonstrated probable cause for Chauvin's arrest much less provided ANY evidence of murder or negligent homicide.

Will that matter to this jury?

1 posted on 04/08/2021 6:58:16 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
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To: ScubaDiver

It certainl put reasonable doubt into play.


2 posted on 04/08/2021 7:00:56 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: ScubaDiver

Who’s willing to take a bet that if there is “reasonable doubt” and he’s not guilty, cities will burn? Big liberal cities.


3 posted on 04/08/2021 7:03:20 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ScubaDiver

Just decriminalize counterfeit money so this can never happen again.


4 posted on 04/08/2021 7:03:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

They will burn anyway.


5 posted on 04/08/2021 7:04:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: ScubaDiver

I think 2nd and 3rd degree murder can be thrown out without much effort. The manslaughter charge (2nd degree) is the only potential charge. Even in that case...it’s a very weak case that has been constructed.


6 posted on 04/08/2021 7:04:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ScubaDiver

The testimony of Chuanin’s superiors is disgusting. What working cop in their right mind thinks that their commanders have their backs or will protect them? The Left does not have to defund the police, they are disintegrating the police. You can’t have an effective crime stopping, community policing organization if their is no respect bor trust in command and policies.


7 posted on 04/08/2021 7:04:57 AM PDT by allendale
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>>Will that matter to this jury?<<

What is the makeup of the jury? Just askin for a friend.


8 posted on 04/08/2021 7:05:20 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ScubaDiver

I occasionally watch the Tim Pool daily news show where he has guests and they sit around a table discussing the issues of the day...

He’s been all over this trail and repeatedly saying the State is making the case for the Defense instead of proving a crime was committed....

Yesterday they had Brandon Tatum on, a Black Former Cop and now staunch conservative Trump supporter who was saying there is a very good chance Chauvin walks out a free man...


9 posted on 04/08/2021 7:06:09 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ScubaDiver

“I Ate Too Many Drugs” ... wan’t this a Pink Floyd track from the late 60’s?


10 posted on 04/08/2021 7:06:45 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Liberal cities have brought it upon themselves.

God promises that, if we don’t repent and stick to his ways, we could lose the land.

I think liberal cities burning is an outworking of that promise.


11 posted on 04/08/2021 7:08:11 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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“I Ate Too Many Drugs” Video May Be Game-Changer

The toxicology report should of done that.

Show trial that's all.

12 posted on 04/08/2021 7:08:19 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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“I Ate Too Many Drugs” ... wan’t this a Pink Floyd track from the late 60’s?

I Took Too Much

13 posted on 04/08/2021 7:09:02 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Geronimo

I don’t remember.


14 posted on 04/08/2021 7:12:11 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: ScubaDiver

Will it matter to the mob?


15 posted on 04/08/2021 7:14:06 AM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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“Among the 12 jurors and three alternates selected for the panel are three Black men, one Black woman and two jurors who identify as multiracial. If none of the three alternates — all of them white — is needed in the deliberation room, 50% of the panel that will vote on Chauvin’s fate will be Black or multiracial.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980646634/half-of-the-jury-in-the-chauvin-trial-is-non-white-thats-only-part-of-the-story

NPR, but it is factual.


16 posted on 04/08/2021 7:14:09 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: allendale
The testimony of Chuanin’s superiors is disgusting. What working cop in their right mind thinks that their commanders have their backs or will protect them?

The Minneapolis Police Department, like many other police departments, is not going to recover from those testimonies. Since no officer in their right mind would risk ANYTHING for such backstabbers, these departments are going to be filled with officers who are not in their right minds.

17 posted on 04/08/2021 7:14:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ScubaDiver

Didn’t they mean “I ain’t ate no drugs.”? Of course folks have been warned that there is only one verdict acceptable. So, it will either be angry riots or celebratory riots. Either way somethings gonna burn.


18 posted on 04/08/2021 7:15:19 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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I have a different take on this whole show trial: the prosecution really didn't want to press this, but pressure from the extreme Left forced their hand. The result is simple: the prosecution is playing this comedy in the most effective way -- playing it straight. No trumped up evidence, no lying witnesses, no spin on direct examination.

Just letting the facts -- ALL the facts -- speak for themselves. And the defense picking up on forensic evidence not originally collected by the State makes for a problem for any honest juror to appease the rabid Left.

Not to mention the Perry Mason moment(s) of flogging the State with the State's own expert witness. (Witnesses?)

19 posted on 04/08/2021 7:17:07 AM PDT by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Cities will burn anyway. It’s what they do.


20 posted on 04/08/2021 7:17:40 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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