Posted on 04/20/2021 4:14:13 PM PDT by Coronal
They got their sacrificial White Cop, now they have Rittenhouse lined up at the edge of the Volcano.
Notice how there was no mention of this being a “Racially motivated” Crime during the Trial but the Left acts like it was?
Now Xiden and his insane AG are going full bore with this nonsense.
Last night I would have watched Gutfeld but she was one of his guests, smirking away, so I turned it off.
I believe the officer is guilty of manslaughter. It was an accident. I am not down with the mob. I’m a law an order guy.
Define what options would the officer had to arrest the thug.
If he would have known the outcome I’m sure he would have said “screw it I’m not going to become involved” and just let him go to carry on his criminal ways.
This is the outcome and the future.
Well I may disagree with the law, but the way I understood it was that when the prosecutor presents “multiple choice” the jury is supposed to pick one, not all three. Even that I have trouble with because it seems designed to ‘trick’ the jury into a ‘compromise’ to get some kind of conviction. IMO they should charge the crime they think they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
I can only stab at a guess here, that the jury can convict on all three charges but that only the most severe will be applied at sentencing.
But convicted of all three, seems to me it just becomes even more difficult to appeal. If my stab at a guess is right and for some reason is overturned on appeal, then it goes back and the next strongest charge is applied to sentencing. I mean whatever one thinks about this case, in theory this hardly seems like justice.
Chauvin's defense team.....if there really was one......stank, stunk, stinked.
I sensed that right from the gitgo....as did other freepers posting on the live thread at the time.
Too bad he wasn't adequately supported "by his own lawyers".
Leni
She was an OK commentator back about 2017, but I could not watch her show after watching once or twice
. She always bored me at some point each night, and used inflammatory statements in her opening monologue, then didn’t follow through with facts.
She was all hat and no cattle.
Mr Chauvin, could you have used a different method to control Mr Floyd? Asks the DA. Are you sorry? Asks the DA. Officer Chauvin would be admitting guilt at every turn. From my cheap seat, he was not guilty on all charges. There is a reason for the 5th amendment, you cannot be forced to testify against yourself because you open yourself up to an infinite number of questions after your Defense attorney is finished.
There is also a reason to testify.
I think this was very similar to a self defense case in that Chauvin’s state of mind was essential to his defense.
Unfortunately his attorney chose to leave that defense on the cutting room floor. They never asked a single expert witness if Mr. Floyd’s death could have been the result of negligence rather than a volitional act. They relied solely on the theory that this was an unintentional suicide.
Oops.
“She was all hat and no cattle.
Good point! Maybe that’s why she has sort of dropped off of my radar. I used to watch her when someone on FR or one of my other regular sites posted a link to a segment. But, I never went out of my way to hear what she had to say. Same with Michelle Malkin. Both very bright, well-spoken and committed conservatives, but they seldom had anything to say that was really new to me.
“Neither murder charge was justified. The judge is simply afraid to speak the truth.
The Derek Chauvin case Minnesota Judge is a Dem. He once worked for Amy Klobuchar, Dem Senator from MN. A liberal Judge, so no honest justice will be coming from him.
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