Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is attempting to get his murder conviction of George Floyd appealed.
Chauvin made national headlines after a video showing him having his knee on George Floyd’s neck went viral.
Chauvin’s attorney recently appeared before a Minneapolis judge and asked for Chauvin’s conviction to be thrown out.
Attorney William Mohrman argued that Chauvin never received a fair trial and the trial should have never taken place in Minneapolis due to the major publicity the case received.
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin's lawyer asks Court of Appeals to throw out the 3 convictions against him in the 2020 murder of George Floyd
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 18, 2023
The Associated Press broke the story:
An attorney for Derek Chauvin asked an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned the Black man to the ground with his knee on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests around the world and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
Chauvin’s attorney, William Mohrman, told a three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the trial judge should have moved the case out of Minneapolis because of extensive pretrial publicity and unprecedented security precautions due to protest fears.
“The primary issue on this appeal is whether a criminal defendant can get a fair trial consistent with constitutional requirements in a courthouse surrounded by concrete block, barbed wire, two armored personnel carriers, and a squad of National Guard troops, all of which or whom are there for one purpose: in the event that the jury acquits the defendant,” Mohrman said.
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin appeals conviction in George Floyd murder, arguing trial wasn't fairhttps://t.co/7XYDZNkXKB
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 18, 2023
Fox News dropped these details:
An attorney for Derek Chauvin appeared before an appeals court in Minnesota Wednesday to ask for the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd to be thrown out, arguing that legal and procedural errors hindered him from having a fair trial.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill had sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 years after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 25, 2020, death of Floyd, whom he pinned to the ground with his knee on Floyd’s neck.
Chauvin later pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison. He is now serving that sentence in Arizona concurrent with his state sentence.
Chauvin’s attorney for the appeal, William Mohrman, argued in his brief to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the pretrial publicity was more extensive than that of any other trial in Minnesota history, and that the judge should have moved the trial elsewhere and sequestered the jury for the duration.
Journalist Jack Posobiec advocated for Chauvin’s lawyer to include the autopsy report in the appeal.
Derek Chauvin should include the Floyd autopsy in his appeals filing today pic.twitter.com/UMn5l3fXyn
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 18, 2023
As you can see a lethal amount of Fentanyl was found in George Floyd’s blood stream at the time of his death.
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