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Just Now: Derek Chauvin asks for new trial
The Hill ^ | 05/04/21 06:17 PM EDT | BY TAL AXELROD

Posted on 05/04/2021 3:50:26 PM PDT by RandFan

Edited on 05/04/2021 3:57:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted last month of killing George Floyd, filed a request Tuesday asking for a new trial.

Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s attorney, alleged that juror misconduct and pretrial publicity in part led to Chauvin’s conviction for second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death last year.


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To: RandFan

There should be a mistrial. Too many leaks, state money given to the family, openly biased jurors, etc. etc.


21 posted on 05/04/2021 4:08:28 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: CodeToad

“No evidence at the trial says he contributed to Floyd’s death. None. Yet, they convict??”

None of this makes any logical sense. But LOGICAL isn’t what’s important in this country.


22 posted on 05/04/2021 4:09:51 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: ealgeone

It was his former house. The new owners had no clue what was going on..


23 posted on 05/04/2021 4:14:17 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: tbw2

I would suggest there were jurors afraid of being branded racists and eventually doxed by BLM member OF THE JURY. Be assured there was intimidation going on.


24 posted on 05/04/2021 4:14:19 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: dayglored

He won’t live five years.

He probably won’t live to see 2022.

The mob demands blood


25 posted on 05/04/2021 4:15:22 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: RandFan

Biden DOJ already has begun, opened a Civil Rights criminal case vs. Chauvin to ensure he never is released from prison.


26 posted on 05/04/2021 4:24:34 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: RandFan

Need to move the trial to the burbs or rural area. If they retry in the city, it’ll be the same verdict as these people want their pound of flesh.


27 posted on 05/04/2021 4:25:35 PM PDT by Jeremiah2911
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To: RandFan

A juror (at least one, anyway) lied in voir dire about his participation in blm rallies. That’s a mistrial in my book plus contempt of court of the juror.

And it is still curious to me how the cop can be charged and convicted with three counts of murder on one person.


28 posted on 05/04/2021 4:26:35 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 2 weeks)
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To: hoe_cake
Hmmmm, at first glance I say he deserves another trial. Waiting to hear from other Freepers.

To me it's a slam dunk he should get a new trial - and out of Minneapolis.

29 posted on 05/04/2021 4:26:42 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: RandFan

The trial, in the midst of a rioting mob, reminded me of a common scene in old TV Westerns.

A lynch mob has formed outside the jail, where a notorious horse thief is being held. The hero Sheriff/Marshal stands at the jail-house door, and racks a shotgun. He then says something like: “I’ll shoot anyone who tries to break in and lynch the prisoner. He’s going to get a fair trial first — then we’ll hang him.”

It just doesn’t look like the way I’ve ever imagined a fair trial looks.


30 posted on 05/04/2021 4:31:17 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: hoe_cake

He does deserve a new trial. But Minneapolis can’t afford it


31 posted on 05/04/2021 4:31:38 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: hoe_cake

Unfortunately every justice organization sees him as a dangerous hot potato and will deny him his due process of a fair trial. So sad but that is a fact. Nobody in their right mind would wanna take it up after what the mediapukes the BLM the president his administration Maxine Waters etc. have done to this poor man. But at the end vengeance is mine says the Lord!


32 posted on 05/04/2021 4:38:35 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: hoe_cake

He deserves one alright, but it won’t make any difference whether he gets one or not. Public opinion has already decided he’s guilty.


33 posted on 05/04/2021 4:39:19 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: hoe_cake

I had questions?


34 posted on 05/04/2021 4:44:11 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: hoe_cake

Yes he does


35 posted on 05/04/2021 4:49:20 PM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Thanks for the update....I bet the new owners were scared beyond belief.


36 posted on 05/04/2021 4:50:13 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: conservative98

I wondered if pic is photoshopped...

the juror claims he does not recall ever having that shirt.

I have seen some amazing ‘shopped photos that look real and some that are real which look fake.

Just saying...


37 posted on 05/04/2021 4:51:25 PM PDT by algore
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To: RandFan

He needs jurors who can keep there identity secret. Very major penalty for officials or media that dox them. And if that doxing leads to the death of a juror then manslaughter charges against such media or officials.


38 posted on 05/04/2021 4:51:48 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Lee25

They can’t afford NOT to have a new trial. With some truth for a change.


39 posted on 05/04/2021 4:52:34 PM PDT by battletank
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To: RandFan

He will get one and the results will absolutely be overturned there is no way I’m living hell he committed murder

But they’ve appease the leftist mob and hopefully they can just have the retrial in a different venue under the radar and so they won’t be leftist riots and murder when he does get freed


40 posted on 05/04/2021 4:52:50 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! )
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