The Derek Chauvin Trial Thread (Guilty on all charges!!) 4/20

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A lot of ppl think that a murder conviction may be unrealistic but if you look at statute law in Minnesota...

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.

This is known as a depraved-indifference murder. If Chauvin committed the act knowing that it runs an unusually high risk of causing death OR serious bodily harm to a person, he would have the requisite mental state for committing 3rd degree murder. Serious bodily harm is enough. I don't think a more severe murder conviction can be secured though. Also a good chance it will reduce down to manslaughter.
 

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case is stacked against the officer and the defense knows this but what the defense needs is one juror to have a hung jury that’s the play
Yep. Exactly. Some a$$hole is gonna keep the jury deadlocked


Also I think this happened before. An old white juror (I forget the case, but I believe it was another killing of a black man) said that there way NO WAY he would ever go against the police officer who was on trial. Because of this, the jury stayed deadlocked for a ridiculously long time smh. And the whole time I was thinking, isn’t THIS what the interview process is for?! Dude literally said that he believes police officers are INHERENTLY good people, so there’s no way he could convict an officer :snoop:

I need to find the trial

EDIT: @BigMoneyGrip i found it. It was the Walter Scott trial
Juror says he can't convict ex-cop in Walter Scott killing trial
 
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