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Found this on a Minnesota Criminal Defense Attorney's website:Does the jury determine the sentence in MN?
What are the choices before the jury? That will make the difference IMO. I think they overshot on charge unless the jury can consider lesser charges.
They need better methods to subdue someone..... with all our technology..... surely they can come up with something that works...... I feel a lot of these incidents could prevented if the cops actually had devices that worked...... anytime it becomes a physical restraint..... there is a chance this happens.Excellent point. The officer could be following SOP with that move for that amount of time and thus be found innocent. But that procedure needs drastic attention. I mean, once the person is subdued and cuffed there should be no need to maintain that "hold" on them.
That has a small semblance of truth.... I ran from the cops one time..... the cops were very distracted by the crowd bc they have no idea what is getting ready to go down.The defense attorney literally just blamed it on them. Saying that the bystanders "distracted officers from helping" Floyd with their comments
You have that and then you have cops that are just douche nozzles that don't GAS about the people or the law and feel untouchable because cops protect cops.They need better methods to subdue someone..... with all our technology..... surely they can come up with something that works...... I feel a lot of these incidents could prevented if the cops actually had devices that worked...... anytime it becomes a physical restraint..... there is a chance this happens.
There's a second degree murder charge, a second degree manslaughter charge, and a third degree murder charge.
I suspect Chauvin will be found guilty on one of the two lesser charges.
Yep. And the s*** will hit the fan. I think that's why Zimmerman walked. They overshot the charges and got nothing.
a drug OD killed Floyd, no matter how stupid Chauvin was, that is an actual factI'd say that outcome is very unlikely. The defense is going to argue that Floyd died because of drugs, not because of the defendant's knee on his neck. To render the defendant not guilty of murder you have to believe that defense, which makes it impossible to convict on the lesser charges.
I believe it will be all or nothing. And since everyone believes cops in a courtroom, the defendant will be found not guilty of everything.
Hope I'm wrong
well it sure didn't look like they were trying to help Floyd
'\No Zimmerman walked because of the 'stand your ground' law.
It didn't matter what the charges were, the defense found their path and it would've made him a free man no matter what they charged him with as that law made Zimmerman's actions justified