Is the defense trying to get Chauvin convicted?

[mcar]

He's showing all these bodycam videos as if they are exculpatory. Instead, they are damning.

[madaboutharry]

1. He wants to confuse the jurors.

He is attempting to get them mixed up so they don’t know what to believe. Such bullshit.

On rebuttal the prosecution will remind them to believe their own eyes.

[Rustyeye77]

23. Actually he's hoping to convince only ONE juror.

nt

[sop]

2. He's mostly bolstering the prosecution's case so far.

[mcar]

5. He really is

I get that he's got nothing, but he's just blathering on and then showing the videos.

[markie]

3. exculpatory in the minds of the

depraved...


well, what else does the defense have???

[Raven]

4. I was about to post the same thing! I'm listening to this, not

watching, and the videos sound awful. Floyd sounds like a drowning man pleading for help. Again, this doesn't mean a thing if there is one person on the jury looking to deny what they've seen.

[mcar]

6. He must be hoping for that one

He keeps saying "reasonable," as if any of this is reasonable. He just actually mocked the prosecution focusing on 9 min. 29 sec.

[duhneece]

7. He repeats Nine Twenty Nine

Over and over again so many times I lost track

[UTUSN]

8. Plus his drumming "a reasonable police officer" when his client is not one!

[sheshe2]

9. IKR

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. He's trying to establish that the use of force was reasonable and thus authorized.

If jurors determine the use of force was reasonable and thus authorized, they can't convict. All the defense needs to do is create a doubt around that point. It's horrifying to rewatch the video like this, but the defense is trying to establish this is all by the book.

[mcar]

11. One assumes the prosecution will rebut reminding the jury

that even the chief of police said it wasn't reasonable force.

[sop]

12. "Reasonable police officer" seems to be all he's saying, repeating it over and over again.

I imagine Nelson wants the jury to remember only this one phrase.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Exactly.

[a kennedy]

14. I am just so afraid of that one juror that will not think it was murder.

Kinda like the Joe Manchin of the jury. Sorry, this is not the place for that. I am just afraid of that one jurors doubt.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. That's exactly what the defense is aiming at. It just takes one who doesn't bend.

[maxrandb]

16. Holy Craps - Dude just went "like we've all heard of the pregnant woman lifting a car"

Something about Mr. Floyd having "super human strength".

Defense actually arguing that what the evil, murdering fucksticks cop did was "reasonable", because "hey, maybe like a pregnant women whose child is trapped under a car, George Floyd might go all SHAZAM and throw a car at the cops".

That's some insane shit.

[mcar]

17. I'm gobsmacked by this whole thing

[Bettie]

18. Maybe they are simply figuring that they have at least

one "cops are never wrong" guy on the jury and are hoping that the more guilty he looks the more that guy will want to let him off.

Otherwise, I've got nothing.

[sop]

19. By the end of Nelson's closing, he'll want the jury to believe Chauvin was trying to save Floyd's

life, keeping him from thrashing around and injuring himself further by holding him down on the pavement, placing him face down so Floyd wouldn't aspirate his own vomit while experiencing the drug overdose that actually killed him.

[PCIntern]

22. Great minds think alike

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Chauvin should be in line to get a presidential medal of freedom.

[liberal_mama]

20. I was wondering the same thing

[Ms. Toad]

21. He's done several things I find puzzling

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- space aliens invading Chauvin's body
- repeatedly showing horrific video clips (including one that ends with Chauvin saying, "I got a scratch on my knee . . . I think I'll live&quot
- pregnant woman picking up the car
- misrepresenting the state's burden: that the must prove that none of these other things played any role. That is not generally the standard - although I didn't hear the jury instruction this morning. (I know Chauvin's counsel asked for a standard that is more challenging for the state to meed - don't know if that request was granted.)


ETA (4:07 PM): The judge just confirmed that defense counsel misstated the law as to causation.

[mcar]

24. Now he's showing George Floyd eating a banana?