> 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.
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.