Top Lawyer Reveals Why Derek Chauvin Will Walk Free!
On Monday, legal scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted Derek Chauvin’s conviction would be overturned on appeal because of the unusual number of “outside influences” that potentially tainted the jury, which was unsequestered for the majority of the trial.
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters is being accused of using tactics from the Ku Klux Klan “playbook” to “intimidate the jury” in the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
The jury reached a verdict more quickly than expected and convicted Chauvin on Tuesday, declaring Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd last May.
During Dershowitz’s interview on Newsmax TV, he said that Chauvin’s actions were “inexcusable morally,” but called the verdict “very questionable,” citing outside influences.
In fact, Dershowitz said the verdict “should be” overturned on appeal.
“The verdict is very questionable because of the outside influences from people like Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters. Their threats and intimidation and hanging the ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the jury — basically saying that if you don’t convict on the murder charge, or all the charges, the cities will burn, the country will be destroyed — seeped into the jury room because the judge made a terrible mistake by not sequestering a jury,” Dershowitz explained.
“I think it should be reversed on appeal,” he predicted.
.@AlanDersh says “threats and intimidation and hanging the ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the jury…seeped into the jury room. I think this case should be reversed on appeal.” @LyndsayMKeith https://t.co/VlT7z8drtO pic.twitter.com/5uuoku1uZu
— Newsmax (@newsmax) April 20, 2021
Despite the amount of attention Chauvin’s trial received, the jury was only fully sequestered on Monday when closing arguments took place.
Dershowitz said it would be inconceivable to think the jurors were not consciously or subconsciously weighing the impact their decision would have on society. Because the jurors were not sequestered for the duration of the trial and were open to outside voices threatening protest violence.
“That should never, ever be allowed to seep into a jury room,” Dershowitz said, adding that he has no confidence the verdict was “produced by due process and the rule of law.”
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The lawyer is right. All that is intimidation of the jury and the verdict isn’t worth anything. Although seemingly a heavy handed arrest in actuality the protocol was as the police academy trained. Floyd overdosed by three times the fatal dose and killed himself. The trial should have been moved. Ellison, the state AG, should have been banned as he is a trouble mongering Democrat official, and the state should have been ready to arrest the whole rabble rousing rioting bunch of thugs!