Judge Peter Cahill described it as ‘heavy duty jury service,’ when he dismissed the 12 jurors tasked with handing down verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial. Truth be told it would be hard to imagine a weightier burden than that carried by the five men and seven women who ultimately deliberated after the three week … Read more
Judge Peter Cahill described it as ‘heavy duty jury service,’ when he dismissed the 12 jurors tasked with handing down verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial. Truth be told it would be hard to imagine a weightier burden than that carried by the five men and seven women who ultimately deliberated after the three week … Read more
George Floyd died because Derek Chauvin’s ‘ego and pride’ took over and caused the cop to betray his badge and abandon his training when he pressed his knee into the handcuffed black man’s neck. That was the image the prosecutor Steve Schleicher put before the jury as he delivered the state’s closing statement at Chauvin’s … Read more
Prospective jurors in George Floyd’s murder trial were sent a 16-page questionnaire asking how many times they watched the video of his death, it has been revealed. They were asked if they took part in Black Lives Matter protests in the questionnaire filed to Minnesota District Court Tuesday. Four former Minneapolis Police officers accused of … Read more
Prospective jurors in George Floyd’s murder trial were sent a 16-page questionnaire asking how many times they watched the video of his death, it has been revealed. They were asked if they took part in Black Lives Matter protests in the questionnaire filed to Minnesota District Court Tuesday. Four former Minneapolis Police officers accused of … Read more
Courtrooms should return to physical sittings as soon as possible with jurors wearing face masks so that urgent cases can be heard, a former Supreme Court president said. Lady Hale argued her case for courts to convene physically rather than virtually during her contribution to the BBC’s Rethink set of talks about how the world … Read more