Chauvin Should Plead Guilty ASAP

[DanieRains]

This went from he choked victim to death to he choked victim to death and wouldn't let EMT assist / revive victim.

It's only gonna get worse.

Take the 30.

[marble falls]

1. To which specification? 1st, 2nd or 3rd degree?

[OnDoutside]

3. I thought he's only charged with 3rd ?

[marble falls]

8. We're both half wrong ...

Chauvin, 45, is charged with second- and third-degree murder as well as second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death.

He fought 3rd degree charges because his attorney thought he could beat 2nd degree and didn't want the jury to settle on 3rd because of the enormity of the act.

He's going to be guilty of something and manslaughter would be less than 10yrs.

[OnDoutside]

12. Excellent, thanks I hadn't seen that.

[DanieRains]

6. 2nd And Ask For 25

Settle on 30.

[Bettie]

2. I think he's counting on there being

one racist "blue lives matter" guy on the jury.

[OnDoutside]

4. 100% agree.

[DanieRains]

7. They Would Re-Try Him

This isn't like the Senate.

[OnDoutside]

10. But wouldn't you potentially have a Trumper on the jury too ?

[CrispyQ]

11. There's more than one. I'd bet on it.

Will they band together, show the others what they really are?

[roamer65]

5. He deserves the death penalty, but I believe MN is life imprisonment without parole.

He deserves it.

[marble falls]

9. Life without parole is a death sentence.

[sarisataka]

13. MN does not have the death penalty

And I will stand by my position that if murder by civilians is unlawful it should be for the State as well. Even in the most egregious cases.

Life is not a possibility as the highest charges have a 40 year maximum. If he was sentenced to consecutive terms it could effectively be life but I do not believe that it can be without parole.

[greenjar_01]

15. He'll get third degree, 8-10 years

Out in six.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Watching trial but might have missed... Couple questions for anyone

1) once GF and friends knew that Cupps probably thought they knew about phony bill and refused to go in store, why didn't they just drive away?

2) cops got floyd in back of police car. Why did they drag him. Out from there? Aren't back seats secure? No handles, glass between back and driver?

[Sneederbunk]

16. To be fair, the jury might want to hear the defense case.

[gratuitous]

17. All he needs is one juror to feel sorry for him

And considering the esteem cops enjoy in society at large, it's not a bad bet that there's one person sitting in the jury box thinking "It's just terrible that Officer Chauvin has to be put through all this. He's suffered enough. I'll vote not guilty."

Even after all the testimony and evidence.