The Trial of Derek Chauvin - Judgement(?) Day(?) has arrived!

Outcome?

  • Guilty of Murder

    Votes: 75 7.6%
  • Not Guilty of Murder (2nd/3rd), Guilty of Manslaughter

    Votes: 397 40.0%
  • Full Acquittal

    Votes: 221 22.3%
  • Mistrial

    Votes: 299 30.1%

  • Total voters
    992
  • Poll closed .
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Isn't it sad, yet hilarious at the same time? We sneer and deride the various justice systems of centuries past as being "cruel", or "backwards", or "nonsensical", yet here we are, observing a case which already was fairly clear-cut, and only gets more so with every passing day, spending hundreds of man hours and millions of dollars trying to appease an angry mob and an even angrier political agenda. A case constructed purely out of a combination of an emotional reaction to a crime scene, filmed by multiple people, and a political cause du jour, where a convicted felon is being portrayed as a pure individual, despite a, let's say, storied and violent past being more than well documented. This, my weary friends, is what we call "Clown World". And I want out of the circus. 🤡
hmmmm yes chuckope and sneethe, american court system for what flaws it has is the pinnacle of what the world has ever seen, dumb monkey literal niggatry cases people mostly tune into for the show value don't discount that

 
One thing that I think is going to damn the prosecution's case is that every single witness makes it sound like Cup Foods is the epicenter of ghetto bullshit in the greater Minneapolis area.

"Yes, we have a police camera mounted at that intersection."
"Yes, we get a lot of murders at that intersection."
"Yes, the manager of Cup Foods open carries."
"Yes, between the beginning of them pinning Floyd and the time the EMTs got there, the number of onlookers went from 1 to 14 with more people getting there every minute and they were yelling at the cops."
 
One thing that I think is going to damn the prosecution's case is that every single witness makes it sound like Cup Foods is the epicenter of ghetto bullshit in the greater Minneapolis area.

"Yes, we have a police camera mounted at that intersection."
"Yes, we get a lot of murders at that intersection."
"Yes, the manager of Cup Foods open carries."
"Yes, between the beginning of them pinning Floyd and the time the EMTs got there, the number of onlookers went from 1 to 14 with more people getting there every minute and they were yelling at the cops."
And the irony of it all is that people will look at that and say "yea, that's normal, so what?" instead of it being a very clear problem with the neighborhood in general.
 
One thing that I think is going to damn the prosecution's case is that every single witness makes it sound like Cup Foods is the epicenter of ghetto bullshit in the greater Minneapolis area.

"Yes, we have a police camera mounted at that intersection."
"Yes, we get a lot of murders at that intersection."
"Yes, the manager of Cup Foods open carries."
"Yes, between the beginning of them pinning Floyd and the time the EMTs got there, the number of onlookers went from 1 to 14 with more people getting there every minute and they were yelling at the cops."
Don't forget the cup food cashier knowing which way the ambulance drives if the patient is dead.
 
What if the defense turns out to be just as retarded and they end up playing in favour of the prosecution?
Considering the Judge has been over-ruling the prosecution's objections more than the defense, it's pretty clear which group of people are the more retarded ones.
 
So I've been following this and think I have a reasonable grasp of most of it but one thing confuses me. How is it that so many options are open as to whether he might get sentenced to Manslaughter or 3rd degree murder or what. I was under the impression you had to make one charge and have to prove it. Not that you could turn up with a full buffet of charges to throw at someone and see what sticks.

I mean sure - some things get rolled together into one trial like you could charge assault separately from the burglary that accompanied it, but can you do that when they overlap? Like try to prove manslaughter and murder at the same time?
 
What if the defense turns out to be just as retarded and they end up playing in favour of the prosecution?
This is 2021 after all.
I can't exactly say Chauvin has a Dream Team. He barely has a team at all. But he has Eric Nelson, and while I can't say he's Johnny Cochran, he's bretty gud. He'll do a good job. He may be massively outnumbered, but he is not outgunned.
 
So I've been following this and think I have a reasonable grasp of most of it but one thing confuses me. How is it that so many options are open as to whether he might get sentenced to Manslaughter or 3rd degree murder or what. I was under the impression you had to make one charge and have to prove it. Not that you could turn up with a full buffet of charges to throw at someone and see what sticks.

I mean sure - some things get rolled together into one trial like you could charge assault separately from the burglary that accompanied it, but can you do that when they overlap? Like try to prove manslaughter and murder at the same time?
I didn't bother asking, but I was wondering the same thing. How can you simultaneously charge someone with both intentional and unintentional killing?
 
Sorry, YT boy, this is real life, the saint gets the girl
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