I don't see this working for his lawyer. The jury did not deliberate long, and it was pretty much a solidly confident decision. Both parties agreed to the jury, did they not?
Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts
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I don't see this working for his lawyer. The jury did not deliberate long, and it was pretty much a solidly confident decision. Both parties agreed to the jury, did they not?
Is the argument that they should have a jury filled with people that think black lives don't matter?
Attending a BLM protest doesn't mean you can't decide a case impartially. But lying about it is disqualifying.
The defense would have done extensive background and social media checks on all the potential jurors beforehand, so they probably already knew about this photo before the verdict.
The defense would have done extensive background and social media checks on all the potential jurors beforehand, so they probably already knew about this photo before the verdict.
They claim that he lied about attending a protest against police brutality. On the jury questionnaire, there was this question: " Other than what you have already described above, have you, or anyone close to you, participated in protests about police use of force or police brutality?" The juror answered "no" here.
The rally he attended was this one: https://nationalactionnetwork.net/commitment-march-get-your-knee-off-our-necks/ Police reform is one element of the rally, but there's more to it that make it a civil rights march, not just a protest against police brutality. Its organizers describe the event like this:
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