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Chauvin Trial: Meet the Jurors

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 24, 2021 39 Comments

Chosen jurors are broadly diverse in terms of gender, race, and age

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 12: We Have a Jury, Final Juror Selected

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 23, 2021 13 Comments

Trial beings Monday, March 29, 9:00am CT with opening argument

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 11: 14th Juror Selected, One More Needed

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 22, 2021 18 Comments

Defense Compelled to Burn Two More Peremptory Strikes

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 10: Thirteenth Juror Seated, 1 More Needed

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 19, 2021 7 Comments

Each Side Uses One Strike, Leaving State with 3 and Defense with 5

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 10 Motion Rulings: Portion of 2019 Prior Floyd Arrest Video Can Be Played At Trial

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 19, 2021 10 Comments

Prosecution also cannot call expert on Floyd's state of mind or PTSD during 2020 incident, denies defense request for change of venue or trial delay.

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 9: Judge Lashes Out At Prosecutors, “let’s just stop right there”

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 18, 2021 21 Comments

Juror #90, who characterized police as "systematically racist" dismissed for cause, as to other jurors seated bringing the total to 12.

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 9: Argument On Admissibility of Floyd’s Prior Drug Ingestion, As 10th Juror Seated

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 18, 2021 19 Comments

State and defense joist re: expert testimony and Floyd’s prior drug ingestion

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Chauvin Pre-trial Day 8: Judge Scolds Media for Trying to View Documents on Lawyers’ Tables

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 17, 2021 17 Comments

Judge also angry about media disclosing court security arrangements, as two more jurors seated.

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 8 – Breaking: Two Seated Jurors Excused for Cause Based On Civil Settlement Disclosure

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 17, 2021 21 Comments

#20 & #36 No Longer Fair & Impartial After Settlement News

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 7: Defense Burns Two More Strikes

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 16, 2021 12 Comments

Defense Asks Court to Presume Bias of Jurors, Return a Strike

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 7 Midday: Motion Over Floyd’s Year-Prior Drug Ingestion

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 16, 2021 11 Comments

No additional jurors seated this morning; Defense uses two peremptory challenges

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 6: Defense Argues Settlement Prejudice

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 15, 2021 11 Comments

Four More Jurors Dismissed for Self-Claimed Bias. One said he knew that his concerns about the safety of his family would lean him heavily towards a guilty verdict, and away from an acquittal.

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 6 Midday: Civil Settlement Becomes An Issue, As Ninth Juror Seated

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 15, 2021 16 Comments

Three Jurors Profess Cannot be Fair & Impartial, Excused

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 5: Seventh Juror Seated

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 12, 2021 22 Comments

State & Defense each burn peremptory, leaving 4 and 7, respectively

Chauvin Pre-Trial Day 4: Defense Burns Two More Peremptory Strikes

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 11, 2021 33 Comments

Juror #41 tells judge directly: I can’t be fair and impartial on this case

Chauvin Pre-trial Day 4 Midday: 3rd Degree Murder Reinstated, Sixth Juror Seated

Posted by Andrew Branca on March 11, 2021 24 Comments

Reinstating the charge follows the Minnesota court of appeals decision in the Noor case to change Minnesota law to allow 3rd degree murder to apply even where the danger was to only an individual,