“It was the perfect storm of bad publicity and setbacks across the board for [Chauvin],” Paul Applebaum, a St. Paul, Minn.-based criminal defense lawyer, told Yahoo News.
Nelson’s motion argued that Cahill abused his discretion by denying Chauvin a change of venue and by failing to sequester the jury before deliberations, which would have required them to avoid all media . Chauvin’s co-defendants — former Minneapolis officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — face charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and are set to stand trial in August.
His privilege will ensure an (un)fair retrial.
True
He didn't seem to mind murdering someone in plain view.
PROOF OF MURDER WAS MADE BEYOND DOUBT
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