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Subject Judge Finds Aggravating Factors In Chauvin Case, Paving Way For Longer Sentence

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Was the judge a BLM supporter who had a BLM t-shirt on underneath his robes?

I'm sure there is a lot about the judge that the public does not know about.

Plus, there is a thing in the legal system called an appeal.  Might get a second chance with an all white jury in a white suburb somewhere in Minn.
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Appeals are heard just by judges, not by people of the community.  And generally they consider only legal issues in the trial, not evaluation of evidence.

So you won't have an appellate decision saying "actually Chauvin did not murder Floyd because his knee was mainly on the back not the neck".  That's a question of fact that an appeal will not touch (hope I'm wrong about this), and the only way to get that reconsidered is to have a new trial.
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That aspect wouldn’t be an appeal because the prosecution expert medical witnesses all testified it was positional asphyxiation that killed Floyd - the combined elements of handcuffed behind back with arms pulled higher and tighter,  chest pressed down hard against the hard street with Chauvin’s one knee on neck or shoulder, other knee on back, plus another cop kneeling on his back, so he could not draw a sufficient breath to allow blood to get to the brain, causing brain death and no further movement.  
There was no testimony about only the knee on the neck causing death.
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Original Message A Minnesota judge has found aggravating factors in Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd — a finding that dramatically increases the likelihood of a longer sentence.

Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

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Here is the order that Judge Peter Cahill made public:

[link to www.mncourts.gov (secure)]

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