What do you think will be the fate of the officers involved in the George Floyd death?
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  What do you think will be the fate of the officers involved in the George Floyd death?
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Question: What do you think the fate of the officers will be?
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All officers will be convicted
 
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Chauvin will be convicted, The other officers will be acquitted
 
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Chauvin will be acquitted, The other officers will be convicted
 
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All officers will be acquitted
 
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« on: April 11, 2021, 11:33:47 PM »

I think there's next to no chance Chauvin gets acquitted but I'm not entirely sure what will happen with the other officers involved but I lean toward them being acquitted.
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2021, 06:47:41 AM »

I wasn't aware that trials for the others had started.

Chauvin will likely be convicted, but whether it be for manslaughter or murder remains to be seen. (Nor am I certain of which he should be convicted as I haven't paid that much attention to the case. I do know that the defense's efforts to suggest Floyd's lifestyle/health should exonerate Chauvin would be wasted on me were I a juror, even if I thought they were a contributing factor.)

Unless Chauvin is convicted of murder, there might not even be any further criminal trials for the other officers. Certainly without such a conviction, murder charges would be off the table for them, and manslaughter would become at minimum difficult to convict them of.
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2021, 10:13:04 AM »

Chauvin will almost certainly be convicted of manslaughter, and even if by some perverse miracle he isn't because of the defense's morally obscene junkie-baiting or whatever, the eggshell skull doctrine will be a harsh mistress if/when the civil cases against him start rolling in. The other officers will probably walk.
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2021, 12:51:16 PM »

Mistrial for Chauvin; the others will be acquitted.
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