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Originally Posted by blueash
back to the OP's original posting. Every conviction is appealed. I have no idea what STRONGLY appealed means. Unless there was an error of law by the judge or some sort of demonstrable jury tampering this conviction will stand. That the jury decided so quickly suggests that the prosecution had a very strong case and presented it well.
The jury decides the facts. They heard lots of facts including every negative thing that could be said about Floyd, his past behavior with arrests, his drug use etc. Despite that the jury correctly found that Chauvin killed him. The jury never heard about Chauvin's past history of excess force or the IRS case against him. So he got every benefit of the doubt, as is our system of law. Chauvin going to jail for 12 1/2 will not bring back Floyd and you know he is not going into a general population of prisoners.
Maybe, just maybe, one life will be saved by this conviction now that cops know some juries will hold them responsible.
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My feeling is that it will be appealed because there was no way he could get a fair trial by not moving the trial OUT of the city. Can you imagine being on that jury knowing that sooner or later your name is going to be released to the public and that everyone will know where you live. If you would give any kind of a not guilty verdict, you and your home would be burned to the ground and you would feel the wrath of a group of people who expect to continually get their way when one of them gets killed. They don't take into account that the guy was trying to pass a fake $20 bill, that he was drunk and high on drugs and driving, that he was resisting arrest and he had a mile long record of crimes and prison time. Granted that doesn't make Floyd automatically guilty but pas behavior is a sign of future behavior - normally.
If people who have criminal backgrounds would quit resisting the police, we wouldn't be having these problems, regardless of their skin color. Why don't the black people get outraged when they kill their own? More white people are killed by police than black people. That's a fact but where is the outrage?