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To: RandFan

IIRC, the fellow who did the original autopsy did not testify, the fellow who testified had NOT examined the body.

How on earth didn’t Chauvin’s lawyer jump all over that? It feels like malpractice, or he was in on it.


21 posted on 12/05/2023 12:54:19 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Fido969
"How on earth didn’t Chauvin’s lawyer jump all over that?"

There is an avenue of appeal -- at this point, inadequacy of counsel based on a failure to call Maya Santamaria -- that would free Chauvin.

Derek Chauvin's lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions

1/19/2023, 8:34:05 AM · 82 of 88
StAnDeliver
"Your Honor, I now call the owner of the El Nuevo Rodeo club in Minneapolis, Maya Santamaria, to the stand."
  • "Maam, did you not tell KSTP that Mr. Chauvin and Big Gorge "both worked security for your club "El Nuevo Rodeo" all the way up to the end of 2019"?

  • "Maam, did you give this quote to the media?":

    "Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside...the two overlapped working security on popular music nights within the last year..."

    "My friend sent me (the video) and said this is your guy who used to work for you and I said, 'It's not him.' And then they did the closeup and that's when I said, 'Oh my God, that's him,'" Santamaria said. "I didn't recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that."

"Your Honor. Under Minnesota Statute 609.195, Murder3 requires "depraved heart", yet these 2 men knew each other; it is factually not possible that they did not know each other.

Your Honor, no previous Minnesota Murder3 conviction has ever stood on appeal, when there was any evidence that the assailant knew the victim. Therefore, I ask this Court to immediately vacate the original verdict on the Murder3 count and order a retrial; or in the alternate, I ask this Court to immediately fully endorse a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on these grounds giving rise to habeus corpus."


30 posted on 12/05/2023 1:08:47 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Fido969

“IIRC, the fellow who did the original autopsy did not testify, the fellow who testified had NOT examined the body.”

In the case I described in my previous post (Tacoma, WA) the prosecutors had a brief presentation by the local coroner, and then brought in some black coroner from some university out East (a “black” university iirc) to say how HE would have done the autopsy.


58 posted on 12/05/2023 1:49:36 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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