Posted on 11/23/2025 9:26:08 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Attorney Greg Joseph has filed a “Memorandum in support of petition for postconviction relief” on behalf of his client Derek Chauvin—the former Minneapolis police officer involved in the arrest and death of George Floyd.
In the 71-page petition filed in Hennepin County District Court, Joseph stated that “this case simply never made sense.” Among several key arguments, he pointed out how few murders “take place before a crowd of witnesses” while officers are working with dispatchers and requesting an ambulance and emergency response.
In speaking about the case for the first time since it was filed on Thursday, Nov. 20, Joseph also pointed out key facts—and raised questions about how video evidence was used during the trial. He also underscored the “potential for misuse” of video evidence and the “devastating effect” that false testimony can have in court and the judicial process.
The petition states that the case involved two key issues: intent and causation. That is, one, whether the restraint of Floyd followed policies and procedures of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD); and two, if the restraint caused his death.
With regard to intent and causation, Joseph stated in the petition that Chauvin’s conviction rested on these “two thin strands.”
In seeking to vacate Chauvin’s conviction, or obtain a new trial, the petition argues that Chauvin “was deprived of his right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article I of the Minnesota Constitution.”
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St Floyd of Fentanyl died of
fentanyl overdose.
That whole trial was a corrupt farce from day one.
Judge is afraid blacks would see this as another opportunity for looting. Chauvin is a political prisoner.
Andrew Branca did a very good deep dive on the request.
It’s time to right this wrong. Even if Chauvin has to change is name and move to an undisclosed location, he did not murder George Floyd. If this president is even thinking of commuting the sentence, he would probably wait until after the 2026 Mid Term elections, so as not to fire the Dems up even more than they may already be.
Don’t give them that rallying point, unless your team is absolutely certain of defending the decision against another Tin-Pot-Dictator activist Judge.
I hope they keep him in some cell away from all the other actual criminals...
Best of luck to you Greg Joseph, but I don’t think anything is going to overturn Officer Chauvin’s conviction.
The powers that be will do anything, including letting an innocent man rot in jail, in order to avoid a repeat of the Rodney King riots.
Railroad3d scapegoat.
It’s my understanding that Trump cannot intervene because it is a State, rather than Federal case.
He wasn't exactly "innocent". We've all seen the videos.
Commute his sentence? Possibly. The sentence was probably excessive.
Oh, really! Didn’t know that.
It makes sense, though. This would be a locally based decision for a Governor, not a President.
...sorry you are buying the leftist LIE, standard procedure to knee in back subdued a bigger UNcoop perp who has already fought off being in the back seat of the squad car ...HE is innocent of ANY charges, including excessive force by law!... ymmv
Chauvin’s trial attorney had a budget of $1M - the limit of the police protective association’s insurance coverage. He spent it on the wrong things.
Several people shot video of the incident from various perspectives. The main video the public and the jury saw was a continuous 9+ minute cell phone video shot from an oblique angle from the back bumper of the police vehicle.
The criminal defense counsel should have seen that the critical issue is what killed the suspect? Was it Chauvin’s knee or the level of drugs in FLyod’s bloodstream? To disprove that Chauvin asphyxiated Floyd, I would have spent as much of the budget as necessary to assemble a three-dimensional analysis of the critical moments by registering all the various video perspectives and synthesizing a 3-D model showing where Chauvin’s knee was impeding Floyd. That issue cuts to the heart of this entire prosecution.
I think that Chauvin is perhaps the most extraordinary victim of mob justice in modern America. He was nearly killed while incarcerated, and you can bet that will not be the only attempt. I have considered submitting a generic application to the Innocence Project, using the facts of the Floyd case while anonymizing references to locations and persons involved. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see their reaction?
Correct.
And the entire court proceeding was absurd. Not being granted a change of venue when you have violent rioting over the event at the top of the absurdities list.
A President of the USA cannot commute or pardon someone convicted of a state charge.
Much of the exculpatory evidence was not allowed by the judge.
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