2aguy
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Chauvin Trial: Jury has âa basisâ to âfind reasonable doubt here, but itâs not what Iâm expectingâ
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WAJ (04:46):
So his use of force was objectively reasonable. Even if that reasonable use of force on this particular person resulted in heart failure. So I think thatâs the defense point of view. And I think they scored a lot of points on the use of force experts that really, youâre getting down to this three to four minutes out of the nine minutes where it becomes questionable. And remember, in theory, the defense only needs to raise reasonable doubt as to the cause of death. The role that the knee on the back was, I think this notion that his knee was on the neck for nine minutes, I think thatâs been completely debunked by the prosecutionâs own witnesses. That for the most part, the knee was on the upper shoulder, across the back of the neck. It was not pushing on the blood supply to the brain for any considerable period of time.
WAJ (05:43):
They started the case by calling witnesses saying, this is the equivalent of a, I forget what they call it, a blood choke or something like that, where you cut off the carotid artery and you deprive the brain of oxygen and everything else shuts, but their own medical witness, the key, the key medical witness for the prosecution said, thatâs not what caused the death. That thereâs no evidence of that. Thereâs no physical evidence of it. And thatâs not what happened. The prosecution theory is youâve kept him in an position that made it difficult, if not impossible for him to breathe in and out. So if I were the defense, I would get up there and I say, hereâs what they said in the opening statement. Hereâs what they, you know, for first five days of trial, they had one theory which was cutting off the flow of blood and now theyâve switched and you donât get to pick and choose. And if youâve got, and if youâre tossing a coin here, thatâs a reasonable doubt. So thatâs what I would do. If I were the defense.
With the prosecution experts screwing up so badly, the only real verdict is not guilty.........but likely, because of his race, and the riots, they will convict him.
