The defense may have let him be seated in this case on purpose.
Perjury or not, the notion of someone who’s a BLM protestor of any flavor being on that jury is absurd and they had to know that. It’s prima facie bias.
So this guy is too stupid to figure out that he was seated as a poison pill, and he was even more stupid not to realize that a high profile case like this would lead to microexamination of each juror.
The defense now has a fabulous case for appeal and re-trial. The judge should have granted a venue change at the outset: take it to Duluth. But they all wanted a conviction on the nastiest charge they could get.
Chauvin’s lawyers should have struck Mitchell, but they elected to keep someone who stated they were BLM on the jury. That is the fault of the defense and not the court.
Chauvin selected his defense team and went to trial with lawyers who were not the best on the planet.