Hints of strategy and new revelations in first week of Derek Chauvin murder trial

Posted on AllSides March 15th, 2021
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Legal twists and turns marked the first week of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes during an investigation last year. A dispute over the reinstatement of a third-degree murder charge against Chauvin nearly stopped the trial before it started. Then, just before the proceedings recessed for the weekend, it was announced that the city had agreed to pay Floyd’s family $27 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit. Some observers say...

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