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Officer who killed George Floyd seeks new trial based mostly on tissue exams

Editorial Board Published December 17, 2024
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A decide has granted permission to legal professionals for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as a part of the previous Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to problem his conviction on a federal civil rights cost stemming from Floyd’s demise in 2020.

U.S. District Choose Paul Magnuson agreed in an order Monday to let the protection study Floyd’s coronary heart tissue and fluid samples to check a concept that Floyd died of a coronary heart situation aggravated by a uncommon tumor, not — as prosecutors contend — from asphyxiation brought on by the white officer urgent his knee on the Black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes regardless of Floyd’s dying cries of, “I can’t breathe.”


A memorial has emerged the place Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Floyd’s demise touched off protests worldwide, a few of which turned violent, and compelled a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism.

Chauvin was convicted in state court docket on homicide expenses in 2021 and pleaded responsible later that 12 months in federal court docket to violating Floyd’s civil rights. His federal defender for his enchantment try, Robert Meyers, argued in his request that Chauvin’s unique legal professional, Eric Nelson, failed to tell his consumer that an outdoor pathologist in a roundabout way concerned within the case, Dr. William Schaetzel, of Topeka, Kansas, had contacted Nelson earlier than Chauvin entered his plea and provided an unsolicited concept that Chauvin didn’t trigger Floyd’s demise.

Chauvin claims that amounted to “ineffective assistance counsel” and is looking for a brand new trial, saying he wouldn’t have pleaded responsible if he had identified in regards to the pathologist.

However federal prosecutors have argued in court docket filings that Nelson made an inexpensive “tactical decision” to not discover an untested opinion “provided by somebody holding himself out as an skilled.” They identified that Nelson consulted with different medical specialists in preparation for Chauvin’s circumstances, together with one who testified in state court docket, however that the jury in that case rejected Chauvin’s medical protection. Additionally they famous that the authorized obstacles to succeeding on a declare of ineffective counsel are very excessive.

Nelson declined to remark Tuesday.

Chauvin is serving his 20-year federal civil rights and 22 1/2-year state homicide sentences concurrently at a federal jail in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court docket final 12 months rejected Chauvin’s enchantment of his homicide conviction.

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