Floyd Murder Trial

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Might as well start it now...

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Chauvin trial jury selection paused as additional charge is pendingJury selection was delayed for at least a day in the murder case against Derek Chauvin, the fired police officer charged with killing George Floyd on a Minneapolis street corner nearly 10 months ago.

Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill said he wants to hear from the state Court of Appeals about whether a third-degree murder charge can be added to the counts of second-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death last May, which was captured on a bystander's cellphone video and broadcast around the world.
After hearing from attorneys, Cahill said he wanted to hear from the state Court of Appeals — possibly on a telephone hearing later Monday— as to whether to proceed with jury selection while the third-degree charge is unresolved. He ordered prospective jurors dismissed for the day and wanted them prepared to return Tuesday.
He initially said he would start the trial with the issue unresolved, starting with jury selection, a meticulous task that could take up to three weeks to accomplish before an anticipated March 29 date for opening statements from the defense and the prosecution.
Chauvin's defense attorney, Eric Nelson, said he intends to ask the State Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeals ruling Friday that directed Cahill to reinstate the third-degree murder charge against the former cop.
But Nelson also said he was ready to begin trial with the charge still pending. He said he expected to petition to the Supreme Court as soon as Tuesday.
"I want to inform the court that we're prepared to try this case," he said. "It is not our intent to cause delay. However, I feel I have an ethical obligation to my client to [petition the Supreme Court]."
Prosecutor Matthew Frank contended that proceedings are best to be delayed.
"This court will be seating jurors for a trial about which we don't know what the exact charges are going to be yet," Frank said. "What we are asking the court to do is stop the jury selection process at this time."
Cahill contended that the third-degree murder charge is a narrow issue and questioned whether a jury could continue to be seated before that charge is resolved. Waiting for the Supreme Court to rule, the judge cautioned, could delay the trial by at least 30 days.
"We want it out in the open, we don't want to wait for a condition that may not get satisfied when a jury is sitting there," Frank said. "We're not trying to delay this case, we want to try it right, and we can only try it once."


https://www.startribune.com/jury-selecti...600031714/

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they've had this long and still dont have the charges figured out.... i've got an OJ feeling on this one.   prosecution will fuck this up by over shooting their evidence and the statutes, and Chauvin will end up walking.

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Judge OKs 3rd-degree murder charge for Chauvin in Floyd deathJury selection process resumes today with 5 on the panel so far. 
Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will again face an additional count of third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd after the judge in his case reinstated the charge Thursday.

Judge Peter Cahill's ruling followed a series of appellate decisions that revived the count before jury selection was to resume.
The reinstatement came after the state Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Chauvin's defense to review a Court of Appeals ruling that said the judge improperly denied prosecutors' push for reviving third-degree murder. Cahill dismissed the count last fall.
Cahill said Thursday that he is now bound by the ruling, which stems from an earlier decision involving the conviction of ex-Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, which declared that third-degree murder can be applied to acts directed toward a single person.
"I am granting the motion because although these cases are factually different — that is Noor and the case before us — I don't think there is a factual difference that denies the motion to reinstate," Cahill said.
"When the intent is directed at a single person, then third-degree murder may apply," the judge continued. "Single acts directed at a single person fall within the gambit of third-degree … accordingly, I am bound by that."
Adding third-degree murder to Chauvin's case gives jurors the opportunity to convict him on a count sandwiched in between the current charges — second-degree murder and manslaughter.
More jurors are about to be seated Thursday and will join the five already tasked with rendering a verdict in the murder trial of Chauvin, charged with killing Floyd last spring, while he was in police detention under Chauvin's knee for more than 9 minutes outside a south Minneapolis convenience store.
In the meantime Wednesday, two more people were seated during the second day of jury selection, joining three from the previous day. As it stands heading into Thursday, a woman of color, a Black man and three white men have been selected to judge a former white officer implicated in the death of a Black suspect.
Prospective jurors have been questioned about their knowledge of the case since Floyd's death on May 25, their views on race and criminal justice, their opinions about police and Chauvin in particular, among other topics.
Once there are 14 jurors — two of them will be dismissed and stand by as alternates once deliberations start —. the trial will turn to opening statements, which are scheduled for March 29
https://www.startribune.com/derek-chauvi...600032918/

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@Vikergirl said:
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Damn, thats a lot of “lost employment” 

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 I would have bet $26mm it would not have been finalized till post trial. 

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HCMC doctor: Lack of oxygen caused George Floyd's fatal cardiac arrestThe HCMC doctor who declared George Floyd dead late last spring testified Monday in the Derek Chauvin murder trial that there was not a heartbeat "sufficient to sustain life" upon arrival, and he believed his patient's cardiac arrest was due to a lack of oxygen.

"Is there another term for that?" prosecutor Jerry Blackwell asked Dr. Bradford Wankhede Langenfeld, who was senior medical resident at the time Floyd was transported to HCMC and eventually pronounced him dead.
"Asphyxia," Langenfeld said.
As the first witness of the day, Langenfeld described Floyd's condition and the attempts to resuscitate him.
"When Mr. Floyd was brought in, would you describe it as an emergency situation?" Blackwell asked.
"Yes, absolutely," Langenfeld said, describing how Floyd was in cardiac arrest and that the goal was to re-establish "spontaneous circulation." 
Asked whether Floyd had a heartbeat upon arrival, the doctor said it was "not to a degree sufficient to sustain life."
Langenfeld also confirmed earlier evidence that no lifesaving measures performed by the officers or bystanders before Chauvin took his knee off Floyd's body.
Langenfeld said Floyd was in "PEA" state, which stands for pulseless electrical activity. There was no pulse but some electrical activity. Low oxygen is one of the causes, he said. It then evolved into asystole, or flatlining. He said shocks to the heart cannot bring back people in such states.
Blackwell asked Langenfeld whether Floyd's cardiac arrest was likely the result of a heart attack. Langenfeld noted that he was not told that Floyd had chest pain or was clutching his chest, along with the fact that he was in a PEA state.
"At the time it was not completely possible to rule that out, but I felt it was less likely based on the information available to us."
As to whether he believed Floyd overdosed, Langenfeld said, "I didn't feel there was a specific toxin for which we could give a medication that would reverse his arrest."
After Floyd was in cardiac arrest for 60 minutes, and was in full PEA and asystole, he said there was well below a 1% chance for a good outcome. He said he then pronounced him dead.
https://www.startribune.com/hcmc-doctor-...600042338/

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I watched as much of the trial as I could stand last week. I didn't think I would have had the reaction that I did but I am clearly still processing some emotions over it. The eyewitness testimony was gut wrenching.