Otago Daily Times

Chauvin seeks retrial

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Minneapoli­s: Former police officer Derek Chauvin has asked a Minneapoli­s judge for a new trial, court records show, two weeks after he was found guilty of seconddegr­ee and thirddegre­e murder and manslaught­er in the killing of George Floyd.

In a series of motions filed yesterday to District Court Judge Peter Cahill, Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson said his client was deprived of a fair trial, adding there was prosecutor­ial and jury misconduct, errors of law at trial and that the verdict was contrary to law.

On April 20, a 12member jury found Chauvin guilty on all three counts he faced after considerin­g three weeks of testimony from 45 witnesses, including bystanders, police officials and medical experts.

The rare verdict against a police officer is considered a milestone in the fraught racial history of the United States and a rebuke of law enforcemen­t’s treatment of Black Americans.

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