Derek Chauvin Files State Appeal to Overturn ConvictionConservatives do not doubt that Derek Chauvin was railroaded, a sacrifice at the BLM altar. However, his martyrdom—which almost ended with his death in prison—may finally end. Chauvin has appealed the judgment against him, and, in an excellent turn of events, he’s just been granted an order by Federal Judge Magnuson to be given blood for testing and heart tissue for examination from George Floyd’s autopsy. The blood tests and tissue examinations may help establish Floyd’s actual cause of death. But of course, the appeal is about much more than a single piece of evidence.
As a reminder of the events surrounding George Floyd’s death and the abuse prosecution that followed, Alpha News, a conservative internet news agency in deep blue Minneapolis, created two excellent films to show the basis for their condemnation, The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People.
I’ve written frequently about the fact that both the medical examiner and the prosecutor were wrong in their contentions about George Floyd’s cause of death. (See, e.g., here and here.) I have even done a video demonstration to show that there is no way that Chauvin’s way of restraining Floyd could have killed him and gone on the record stating that Chauvin is innocent of wrongdoing.
Based on my medical experience, the available autopsy information, and an experiment replicating the last minutes of Floyd’s life, I’ve asserted since the beginning that the reasonable cause of Floyd’s death was sudden death from cardiac arrest brought on by excitement, agitation, exertion, and severe heart disease, all of which were aggravated by intoxication with fentanyl and methamphetamine.................
Thankfully, Chauvin’s new attorney, Gregory Joseph, a man of integrity and fortitude, is acting aggressively on Chauvin’s behalf. He filed a petition for post-conviction relief in which he contends that there is evidence that Chauvin is innocent but had ineffective assistance of counsel, that the prosecution committed discovery violations, and that Chauvin was denied due process and a fair trial. The mere fact that this will apparently be the first time Chauvin has access to tissue from Floyd’s heart speaks to how unfair the process was.
............The specifics of Joseph’s charges are truly shocking:
Chauvin only received the autopsy and toxicology reports two years after the verdict.
Floyd had a tumor that Andrew Baker, the medical examiner, did not test to see if it was cancerous and active, something that can cause “sudden cardiac death.”
The tumor is not available for any future examination.
A forensic pathologist who understood the risks of paraganglioma tumors—which may be what Floyd had—contacted Chauvin’s attorney, the judge, and a member of the prosecution team with an offer to testify about the tumor, but no one informed Chauvin about this offer.
The medical examiner changed his initial report to add “neck compressions” and “homicide” only after being contacted by Roger Mitchell, M.D., a prosecution-friendly physician who had not witnessed the autopsy.
What’s heartbreaking to learn is what happened to Chauvin’s laborious efforts while in prison to prepare a petition:............
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/derek_chauvin_files_state_appeal_to_overturn_conviction.html
