Posted on 04/21/2021 3:40:15 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Renowned defense attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that the conviction of former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd should be overturned on appeal because of the public intimidation of the jury and the judge’s refusal to sequester the jury.
Dershowitz noted the “outside influence” of people like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who encouraged unrest at a protest on Saturday night in nearby Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, if there was no murder conviction in the case.
Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of all of the charges in the case — second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Dershowitz told Newsmax:
What was done to George Floyd by Officer Chauvin was inexcusable, morally. But the verdict is very questionable, because of the outside influences of people like Al Sharpton, and people like Maxine Waters. Their threats and intimidation, and hanging the sword of Damocles over the jury, and basically saying if you don’t convict on the murder charge, on all the charges, the cities will burn, the country will be destroyed, seeped into the jury room because the judge made a terrible mistake by not sequestering the jury. So the judge himself said, this case may be reversed on appeal. And I think it might reversed on appeal. I think it should be reversed on appeal. I think the American Civil Liberties Union, which would be all over this case if it weren’t a racially-charged case, all Americans who care about due process and liberty should be concerned that the jury verdict may have been influenced by, if not the thumb, maybe even the elbow of the outside pressures, the fears, the threats.
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And yes, I agree with others, what has occurred is a travesty of justice. But then, welcome to "Obama's/Biden's America" where the rule of law means squat!
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The tired phrase is “systemic racism”. They are delusional in thinking they proved this was a racist incident, the cop was racist and America is a systemically racist country. If Floyd were white we may have never known of this case and if the cop was black in which he would not be overcharged and may have been outright not guilty by the jury. The whole thing is rotten to the core.
Charges should never have been brought. This is a travesty.
I'm sure the appeal will be filed within a matter of days but that doesn't mean Chauvin will be released. As a convicted murderer he'll probably remain behind bars while the appeal works it way through the system.
Overturn verdict on “you can’t be convicted of three different kinds of murder, especially when the sole victim killed himself.”
He needs another route for a fair trial.
In a world where the rule of law was still in force, the conviction WOULD be reversed. But we have the example of the OJ Simpson trial as the standard for determination of guilt or innocence.
It used to be, that the law was used to determine what was legal, and what was illegal. But now the lines have been so blurred by reliance on emotion rather than fact, that no semblance of a “fair” trial” may be found anywhere.
“if the cop was black ...”
Part of the solution would seem to be to put more black policemen in places where blacks misbehave. But I defer to the judgment of the policemen and their organizations.
He is dead a man walking if he is released into general population at a Maximum Security Prison. Imagine there are quite a few “Lifers” chomping at the bit to take him out. Very sad as this verdict is likely a death sentence.
True, but the trial itself was about contributing to the death of Floyd, not racism. They had various witnesses testify about that The jury probably went with the Chauvin-killed-Floyd medical witnesses. Pretty cut and dry in that case.
He will have sentence reduced. Or some charges dropped. It’s almost like they told the jury to just convict on all charges to save the streets from violence. They will correct it later.
There is nothing cut and dried about it. There is simply NO WAY you convict a policeman of murder when the hardened criminal he was arresting died because he was resisting arrest.
His chances of getting an appeal are as good as the supreme court taking on a 2020 election fraud case.
Wouldn’t the defense have to find a juror who would admit, under oath and on the stand, they heard and was affected by the tough talk of Waters, BLM, Sharpton and Biden so much so that they voted guilty to save the city and because the above mentioned folks said it would be the right thing to do?
Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
Floyd shoulda stayed away from drugs and counterfiet money. He coulda complied with the diverse group of officers to get peacefully into the car. He woulda still been alive but for his own bad choices.
The case should be overturned on appeal because the State withheld evidence that undermines its cause of death, which is essential to its case that Chauvin asphyxiated Floyd. Would the defense case have been entirely different had it known that Floyd’s blood tested at 98% blood oxygen saturation? Combine that with testimony about where the carotid arteries are (hint - they are on the sides of the neck, down from the front of the ear, not the back of the neck or the shoulder).
Yes, I don’t see why people are assuming that there will be an appeal. Chauvin’s lawyer can try to appeal the case, but can’t the appeals court just turn it down?
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