Posted on 06/25/2021 1:00:24 PM PDT by Coronal
SCOTUS decided a long time ago that prosecution for a state crime and federal civil rights violation is not double jeopardy. Can’t say that I agree with the decision but there it is.
Chauvin did not commit "murder". Floyd was a career criminal who killed himself with a drug overdose. Chauvin may have unwittingly helped him along.
Time to burn Minneapolis to a cinder. Reduce it to unrecognizable rubble like Hiroshima. Do it!
> That’s like the max <
I’ve read elsewhere that the max in this case was 30 years. And that’s what is going to make the mob unhappy. Chauvin did not get the max.
Evil court!
Appeal!!
Let the looting begin...another flimsy excuse available from the court.
They railroaded another innocent man.
SUX
Unhappily, he’ll get another 10 years as a guest of Uncle Sam for violating Floyd’s civil rights under color of state law.
Minnesota allows for release after service of 2/3 of a sentence, so Chauvin might emerge from solitary confinement in 2036 or so, only to be put in a federal slammer after that. He has to do 85% of a federal sentence, so, assuming he lives so long, we won’t be back out on the street until late 2044 or early 2045.
Chauvin appears to have lost weight in prison, as his suit was clearly too big for him. Also, the Judge appears to have had a couple of belts of whiskey during the recess prior to the reading of the sentence. His face was flush and he was clearly nervous and trembling.
Historically, the use of federal “Civil Rights” charges have only been contemplated by the Feds when they feel that the defendant has been “unjustly” acquitted of state criminal charges, a la Rodney King and Trayvon Martin. That is not the case here.
This charge of infringing on the victim’s civil rights can be applied any time a non-PoC commits a criminal act on a PoC. It is the DOJ’s version of the “Elastic Clause.”
> The Judge said he did not base the sentence on emotion or public opinion but on the law. <
I’ve read elsewhere that the Minnesota state guideline for a crime such as this one is 12 1/2 years. That takes into account the fact that Chauvin had no previous criminal record.
Chauvin got 10 years more than that. Somehow I think “emotion” had something to do with it.
“I’d appeal the sh!t out of this.”
Appeals are very costly. He may not have the money, particularly if the police union declines to fund the appeal. He has no job, no income, and his wife left him. Likely she and her lawyer will take any savings he has.
Any lawyer that might take the case pro bono will have unbelievable pressure not to take the case. His other clients will be pressured to walk. His family will be harrassed. Likely his house will be attacked. There is no upside for an attorney with a decent practice and standing in the community to take this appeal.
Even if he finds an attorney, a court has to agree to hear the case. Liberal judges can find all kinds of reasons to turn down even an appeal with compelling demonstration there was malfeasance or unfairness in the original trial. Judges on the appeals court will be under tremendous pressure from the media, social justice organizations, other liberal judges, neighbors, and attorneys not to take the case. If a judge has any political ambitions, desires to gain an appointment to a higher court, or plans to leave for a lucrative job in private practice taking on the Chauvin appeal will kill those ambitions. This case is radioactive for anyone in the judicial system. Attorneys and judges won’t want to touch it.
We no longer have a “justice” system in this country. We have a highly politicized tribunal system with no pretense to provide equal access or equal outcomes. The wealthy and protected minorities are judged by different standards than a white male the political system and media have decided to completely destroy.
Chauvin unknowingly at the time made a mistake that day in conducting the arrest of Floyd in a manner the media and social justice organizations could use to further other objectives. Whether he was following procedure or not makes no difference in a polticized tribunal. He is a casualty in the assault on individual liberty by the left. The side currently winning the war against the republic takes no prisoners.
Chauvin’s future is bleak. He will receive the Epstein exit plan, be killed by his fellow prisoners, or serve his full sentence in constant fear of being killed. At least half of the nation is rooting for his death.
22.5 years because a drug addict killed himself with fentanyl?
Outrageous
This sentencing will kick Kamala’s dismal performance in El Paso off the top of the fold. What we heard was all blab and no practical solutions. Shame on this astro turf administration that is paper thin on original ideas. President Trump will have an easy time burning up the Biden Regime, tomorrow, in Ohio.
Well, the ‘good news’ - to the extent there’s any - is that it’s INCREDIBLY unlikely that even if convicted by the feds, the federal sentencing would run consecutively. Almost always, these kinds of convictions run concurrently.
It’s really nothing more than political theater...very, very expensive political theater with the only winners being lawyers.
That’s true. But, the judge found ‘aggravating factors’ which allowed him to increase the sentence by exactly 10-years, which is how he arrived at 22.5-years.
George Floyd ingested enough Fentanyl to kill a horse - to literally kill a small to medium-sized equine - and yet because of ‘aggravating factors,’ Chauvin gets sentenced to 22.5-years.
Chauvin has three chances on appeal: fat, slim and none. Fat and slim have left town. The state courts in Minnesota are lousy with liberals, and he won’t get a fair shake in either the intermediate appellate court or in the MN Supreme Court.
Chauvin’s only hope is, after the Minnesota Supreme Court denies his writ for review, he finds a sympathetic judge on the US District Court in Minneapolis (such as Trump appointees Eric Testrud and Nancy Brasel) to issue a writ of habeas corpus for his release, as his federal constitutional right to a fair trial was violated by the trial judge allowing a biased juror who had prejudged the case to sit on the jury.
Take 35 E...
Chauvin better hope the penitentiary has a robust white population where the Aryan gang has a sizable advantage. The guy will need to join that faction.
Of course they could put him with the kiddy-diddlers, however, I think “the powers that be” want him in general population and look the other way while the black faction murders him which the media will go gaga over and make celebrities out of the prison guards.
I heard the max was 40. The prosecutors asked for 30.
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