Could Derek Chauvin Win An Appeal? Here’s What Legal Experts SayDylan Housman
General Assignment & Analysis Reporter
April 30, 2021 10:11 PM ET
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s defense team is likely to appeal his three convictions for killing George Floyd, but legal experts say the odds of success are incredibly slim.
Chauvin was convicted of both second and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on June 25, after which point his defense will have ninety days to file an appeal.
Legal experts and television pundits have debated multiple potential lines of argument for appeal, including Judge Peter Cahill’s refusal to change the trial’s venue, possible civil unrest that might’ve occurred if Chauvin wasn’t found guilty and potentially inflammatory comments made by people like Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters.
Experts say that the venue challenge will almost certainly be rejected. It’s unlikely that a pool of potential jurors anywhere in the state of Minnesota could have avoided the intense media coverage and civil unrest that surrounded the case.
“If they were to overturn the conviction and send it back to the trial courts to be retried in a different venue, it would be even more difficult now than it was before the first trial to find another location in which pre-trial publicity wasn’t ubiquitous,” Minneapolis-based defense attorney Brock Hunter told the Daily Caller.
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