I don't believe it is either incompetence or deliberately spiking.
We are seeing the court system work as intended when given a garbage case. The prosecution is doing its job presenting one side of the evidence and the defense is unsurprisingly devastating the poor evidence presented. If the prosecution was trying to spike the case, I don't think they would have had their final desperation medical evidence witness. I assume he got a stern talking to by the prosecution that he wasn't going to give a single inch on cross after the disastrous outcomes of his predecessors on the stand.
I see this case as absurd as if Chauvin was being put on trial for the murder of JFK in Dallas in 1963 because there is someone in the footage of the event that looks like Chauvin. The prosecution dutifully is going to put their evidence before the jury. And the defense is going to destroy the case before it even gets to the defense's turn for presenting evidence.
This case is the result of 'community leaders' and people outside the prosecutors office demanding a conviction. Prosecutors don't like taking cases they aren't certain they can't win. There is really no major evidence we know of now that we don't know of a year ago. The two murder charges are pure fantasy and nothing but appeasement for those forces outside the prosecutors office.
And the manslaughter charge is something you could give the evidence to any prosecutor and they would yell at you for wasting their time.
- A dangerous and possibly lethal mix of drugs taken/swallowed by the suspect in desperation to avoid going to jail?
- The suspect in that condition behind the wheel of a vehicle?
- The suspect engaged in illegal activity just before the incident?
- The suspect claiming medical problems before the arresting officers had physical contact with him?
- The suspect foaming at the mouth?
- The suspect not-cooperating/fighting with the arresting officers?
- The suspect requesting to be placed on the ground?
- The suspect being put in a restraint right out of the MPD training material?
- The ambulance getting lost and having to have the arresting officer upgrade to a Code 3?
- Any angry crowd expressing threats to the arresting officers while waiting for the delayed ambulance?
That is just off the top of my head. This case is utter garbage. It is nothing but
reasonable doubt. No prosecution office in the country could have made this case less of a disaster without outright malfeasance from the judge or prosecution witnesses who were willing to outright lie about the evidence to the extent the final medical witness did.
If the prosecution office had integrity they would have absolutely refused to participate in this show trial.