The dust in the Floyd case settled on April 20, with Officer Derek Chauvin being convicted of murder. The National Archives reports that on Tuesday, May 4, Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, filed a motion for a new trial, which argued that the jury was subjected to biased media coverage without being sequestered, as well as the influence of various prosecutorial misconduct.
Nelson argued in the filing that the publicity during the proceedings threatened the fairness of the trial and amounted to “intimidation” of the defense’s expert witnesses. Such conduct not only exacerbates the potential for bias in the proceedings, but may deter defense expert witnesses from coming forward to testify,” the motion states. The media campaign before and during this trial was so pervasive and biased that it constituted a structural flaw in the proceedings.”
Nelson claims in the filing that one of the court’s major failures was not segregating the jury and leaving it completely exposed to media coverage, especially given that jurors feared retaliation if they did not vote to convict. This fear was detailed by alternate witness Lisa Christensen, who lives in Brooklyn Center and later told the media that she “didn’t want to experience any more riots and destruction” and was “worried” that people would come to her house if they were “unhappy with the verdict.
The Biden regime had planned to re-arrest Officer Derek Shovan if he was not convicted.
The motion also cites jury misconduct, as Juror 52 Brandon Mitchell was photographed at last August’s March on Washington wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. with the text, “Get your knees off our necks,” and the three initials, “Black Lives Matter. ” three letter initials. Yet, during his interview to join the jury, Mitchell had said he had never participated in a protest about police brutality in Minnesota or elsewhere.
Mitchell even went on a television show to encourage people to join juries and promote social change. He said, “If we want to see things change, it’s important to be part of those processes, to spark change. Jury duty is one of those things. Serving on juries, participating in voting, all of those things we have to do.”
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