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farvacola

United States18857 Posts

April 20 2021 19:47 GMT

#63281

I'm guessing the quick turnaround time means guilty, perhaps on all three charges.

Gorsameth

Netherlands22353 Posts

April 20 2021 19:49 GMT

#63282

I assume a quick verdict means guilty on most charges if not all yes.

ZerOCoolSC2

9055 Posts

April 20 2021 19:49 GMT

#63283

I'm guessing they dropped the murder charge and took the manslaughter. I don't know what the 3rd one was.

Doublemint

Austria8744 Posts

April 20 2021 19:50 GMT

#63284

damn. electricity in the air? let's hope justice prevails.

KwarK

United States43982 Posts

April 20 2021 19:52 GMT

#63285

If they couldn’t get guilty of murder with a video of a man slowly killing another over 9 minutes then I don’t know what it’ll take. Even if he was struggling, he should have been, he was being killed, struggling is self defence at that point.

ZerOCoolSC2

9055 Posts

April 20 2021 19:55 GMT

#63286

I'm thinking in terms of it being unanimous. Murder would that one murky area where one person is stubborn and can't wrap their head around it or something. So they drop it and get unanimous on the other. I don't fucking know. We'll see if Minny rages tonight or not in a few minutes.

farvacola

United States18857 Posts

April 20 2021 19:57 GMT

#63287

The three charges are second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, in descending order of severity. It may very well be the case that they traded on the first for the second two, but I think at least one or two jurors would have been reluctant to do that in a way the single day of deliberations renders unlikely. It's guilty on all three or on the lesser two almost certainly though.

Doublemint

Austria8744 Posts

April 20 2021 20:04 GMT

#63288

yeah involuntary manslaughter - in some form or some degree- should be the absolute minimum he gets...

livestream at WaPo just started.

Doublemint

Austria8744 Posts

April 20 2021 20:20 GMT

#63289

ok. so watching the expert witness recap it appears just about everyone threw Chauvin to the wolves. except for his lawyer who just does lawyer stuff and tried.

looks not so bad anymore.

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

April 20 2021 20:24 GMT

#63290

If I were a betting man I would bet that they're convicting on Manslaughter 2 and Murder 3 but not Murder 2. The case for Murder 2 seemed much more of a coin flip than the other two and I'm not betting on a jury siding against a cop if it's something so up in the air.