Chauvin will be convicted of at least 3rd degree murder. 3rd degree really is a negligence charge, and I don’t see how Chauvin could possible avoid it. And it matters not if the guy used drugs or not.
2020 Minnesota Statutes
609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.
(b) Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.195
Has Floyd’s drug dealer been arrested and charged?
Have you watched the trial or read full coverage of it?