Hmmmm...Looks like the Chauvin Lawyer's strategy will be to attack Floyd.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder charges for Floyd’s death, asked the judge to allow the jury to see evidence of the earlier episode.
In the arrest of May 6, 2019, a panicking Floyd swallowed several opioid pain-killer pills as police approached. Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s lead lawyer, has argued that the main cause of Floyd’s death a year later, which was ruled a homicide, was the opioid fentanyl found in his blood at autopsy.
“The similarities are incredible, it’s the exact same behavior in two incidents almost exactly one year apart,” Nelson told the court before the resumption of jury selection, noting Floyd called out for his “mama” in both arrests, according to video footage.
Prosecutors opposed the move, saying the defense was seeking to dirty the character of Floyd...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-georgefloyd-idUSKBN2B82AO
He might have fallen over and died all on his own.
Unfortunately for Chauvin, Floyd died while he was basically standing on his neck.
The lawyer is doing his job. This is not to be unexpected.
Expectations are dangerous things when it comes to these high profile cases, as I have already explained in prior posts.
Don't mistake my reporting it for supporting it.
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