Can you confirm - Since one of the jurists has come forward and admitted that they ruled guilty because they didn't want to trigger riots, overturn on appeal is nearly guaranteed.
If yes, than OMG - Pedes arm up, the riots are going to go supernova!
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Aspiring legal pede here. Regardless of the tainting of the verdict ( of course a proper court of appeals will regard it, but bear with me), the sentence is just impossible. You cannot be sentenced by 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree murder and the manslaughter of the same person.
It would imply that you planned to kill the person beforehand, wanted to kill the person only at the moment, acted with negligence on your duty, which caused the death (only thing Chauvin might be guilty of imo), and caused harm to the person, unintentionally causing death later on, all at the same time.
Any court that cares for the rule of law would laugh at this BS and kick Chauvin out of jail for mistrial.
This is what I was wondering about. Chauvin was found guilty of 3 crimes that caused Floyd's death. So, then, was he killed 3 times. I thought these charges would be either/or not all 3.