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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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To: ScubaDiver

It doesn’t make any difference how bad the prosecutor is or how empty the prosecution’s case is.

The jury verdict has already been predetermined.


21 posted on 04/08/2021 7:18:33 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ScubaDiver

So in short, it again looks like the endlessly parroted media narrative may not quite have been accurate?

Color me shocked. /s


22 posted on 04/08/2021 7:20:29 AM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: ScubaDiver

I was watching the trial on a patriot YouTube channel that I seem to have lost the name of. Does anyone have any recommendations for viewing other than the mainstream RAT offerings?


23 posted on 04/08/2021 7:20:32 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ScubaDiver

Everybody just STFU.

The cop put his knee on a cuffed perp.

He posed NO ADDITIONAL THREAT.

Chauvin was a retard.

Just back off and put him in the back of the patrol car.

Hell, tether his feet too.

Chauvin murdered the guy regardless.

End of story.


24 posted on 04/08/2021 7:20:37 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: servantboy777

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/us/derek-chauvin-trial-jurors/index.html

Five men and nine women have been chosen to serve on the jury during the trial in Minneapolis. Of the 14 jurors, eight are White, four are Black and two are mixed race, according to how the court says the jurors identified themselves.
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The jurors in Chauvin’s case all come from Hennepin County, which is demographically about 74% White and 14% Black, according to census data.

So, the jurors are all local and facing mob violence if they don’t vote guilty. If one or two jurors won’t give the right answer, there are two replacements. Chauvin, no matter how good his defense lawyer is (apparently quite good...) doesn’t have a chance. Facts don’t matter, just the threat of mob violence.


25 posted on 04/08/2021 7:22:28 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: Geronimo
"“I Ate Too Many Drugs” ... wan’t this a Pink Floyd track from the late 60’s?"

I think Cheech and Chong did a cover of that one as well.

26 posted on 04/08/2021 7:23:19 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: ScubaDiver

Excellent article. I don’t trust paid expert witnesses. But why would the prosecution use an expert who never testified in State or federal court before and from California.

Nelson is very good.


27 posted on 04/08/2021 7:23:46 AM PDT by gcparent (MAGA)
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To: Eddie01

Sorry.
That’s a standard method of restraining a suspect who is not being cooperative - as the PROSECUTION witness testified.
Chauvin did nothing wrong. Floyd killed himself by swallowing his ‘inventory.’


28 posted on 04/08/2021 7:23:50 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: servantboy777

Lots of women.


29 posted on 04/08/2021 7:24:36 AM PDT by gcparent (MAGA)
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To: Eddie01

+1


30 posted on 04/08/2021 7:25:15 AM PDT by stormer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep. Pop popcorn.


31 posted on 04/08/2021 7:26:10 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: gcparent

I agree. I wasn’t sure about him during his opening arguments. But, he is a deliberate, meticulous litigator who is dismantling the state’s case, sometimes with an Exacto knife and other times with a sledge-hammer. Chauvin chose wisely.

With respect to why they chose this guy, I think the notion that he was the best they could do is not an unreasonable one. Purely from a legal perspective, this case is a loser all day long.


32 posted on 04/08/2021 7:29:27 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Little Ray

“Standard method of restraining.” ...until you get the cuffs on.

You can’t justify the knee on neck after that.

You can’t.

My porch light is LED Blue.

Love our local cops, but can’t justify this in my mind.

Cops don’t have indiscriminate lethal authority.

...and that’s a good thing.


33 posted on 04/08/2021 7:31:22 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: asinclair

I believe - but am not 100% certain - that it’s not the local prosecutor who brought this case. Instead, it was Ellison himself. That is his team litigating on behalf of the state.


34 posted on 04/08/2021 7:31:33 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: ScubaDiver

CNN trying desperately to present the opposite:

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(CNN)The special agent who led the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigation into George Floyd’s death struggled to make sense of a short phrase Floyd said last May as Derek Chauvin kneeled on him.

Senior Special Agent James Reyerson was shown a clip from Minneapolis Police body-camera footage of Floyd saying something while handcuffed and in a prone position on the ground.

“Did it appear that Mr. Floyd said, ‘I ate too many drugs?” defense attorney Eric Nelson asked Reyerson.

“Yes, it did,” Reyerson said.

After a short break, the prosecution played for Reyerson a longer clip of the video that provided the lead up to that comment.

“Having heard it in context, are you able to tell what Mr. Floyd is saying there?” prosecutor Matthew Frank asked.
“Yes, I believe Mr. Floyd was saying, ‘I ain’t do no drugs,” Reyerson replied.

The testimony came on the eighth day of Chauvin’s criminal trial as several investigators and forensic scientists testified about what they found at the crime scene, including Floyd’s blood stains and a few white pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Earlier in the day, a Los Angeles Police Department use-of-force expert hired by the prosecution testified that Chauvin had used excessive and deadly force on Floyd when none was needed.

..more

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-day-8/index.html


35 posted on 04/08/2021 7:32:20 AM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: ScubaDiver

Will that matter to this jury?
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Probably not, but yet again we now find out that the media/Democrats lied to us. I was a lone voice on FR early on in this case telling everybody to reserve judgment, etc. Unfortunately, I haven’t followed the case that closely because of work. My question is: Was Chauvin’s knee on the BASE of the neck (or shoulder area) the whole time or was that for just part of the time? If his knee was indeed not on Floyd’s neck, FREEPERS should riot and burn down the Washington Post and Ben Crump’s office.


36 posted on 04/08/2021 7:34:14 AM PDT by bort
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To: Eddie01

No one is brining up that the two knew each other.

I agree. Manslaughter at best.

My standard is “IF a non cop does this, what would be the charges?”


37 posted on 04/08/2021 7:35:58 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: Eddie01

First, the defense has already capably demonstrated that Chauvin’s knee wasn’t on Floyd’s neck. That’s fake news.

The state’s own witness disagreed. He said that he has had arrests where he kept the suspect ON THE GROUND by force as they waited for EMS to arrive. He also said that people who OD, pass out and then come to again, can be dangerously violent.

Not only did the state’s own witness offer that testimony, but he was forced to admit - under oath - that Chauvin actually DEESCALATED the use of force when he elected to NOT tase the suspect, something that would have been authorized considering Floyd’s non-compliance.


38 posted on 04/08/2021 7:36:03 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: JonPreston

The guy at Legal Insurrection has been using the WashingtonPost YouTube feed.


39 posted on 04/08/2021 7:36:57 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: fwdude

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

Because they let them. They’re afraid of them.


40 posted on 04/08/2021 7:38:03 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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