Posted on 03/12/2021 4:39:13 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the Minnesota murder trial of Derek Chauvin, over the in-custody death of George Floyd. I am Attorney Andrew Branca for Law of Self Defense, providing guest commentary and analysis of this trial for Legal Insurrection.
As a reminder, I am “LIVE Parlering” the trial in real-time over at my Parler account, which you can find using my Parler handle: @LawofSelfDefense.
Today the court moved through six prospective jurors: #42, #43, #44, #46, #48, and #49.
Two of these essentially took themselves out of the running when they professed exceptional difficulties in being able to serve without hardship–#46—or claiming both hardship and firmly established opinions against the defendant–#49. Prospective juror #43 was also excused for some unexplained reason, and was never questioned on open microphone.
Another two prospective jurors were removed by peremptory strikes, with the defense burning a challenge on #42, and the state burning a challenge on #48. More on these two below.
Prospective juror #44, however, was satisfactory to both the defense and the state, and was seated as the 7th member of the jury. More on her below, as well.
JUROR #42: STRICKEN BY THE DEFENSE Prospective juror #42 was a young-sounding female, a recent college graduate who described herself as a “genuine person” who looks for “true friendship.”
When asked by the defense if she’d ever in her personal or professional life been in a position where she had to resolve which of two sides in an argument was more likely telling the truth, she said she never had been—which seemed odd for an adult to say....
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Are any “white devils” going to be allowed on the jury?
The attorney representing Chauvin needs to demonstrate the non lethality of the knee on the neck restraint, right on the courtroom floor, and doing it longer; maybe twice as long, to show that a reasonably healthy drug free man can easily endure the process without serious risk (I suspect that a visit to a chiropractor might be considered afterward.
I’ve simulated it with no ill effects.
Scott Adams suggested that Chauvin’s attorney give his closing argument while Chauvin has his knee on his neck the whole time.
Chauvin is in serious trouble. Don’t be shocked if receives serious prison term. It is the presence of 30 minute video.
I believe that there are at least 3 so far.
Juror #7 seems very reasonable, and intelligent.
Yeah. I haven’t looked at the author’s previous posts from his coverage yesterday to see what he has to say about the jurors picked then.
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