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| Derek Chauvin trial judge slams Maxine Waters' inflammatory comments |
| 2021-04-20 |
| [FoxNews] Judge Peter Cahill said he wished elected officials would stop disrespecting the judicial process A lawyer defending Derek Chauvin, who is on trial for the death of George Floyd, cited Rep. Maxine Waters’, D-Calif., comments to Minnesota protesters over the weekend in court on Monday. "And now that we have [a] U.S. representative ... threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case, it's it's mind boggling to me to have," Attorney Eric Nelson said, as he attempted to argue that the jury may have been unduly influenced by external factors. Judge Peter Cahill said that he wished elected officials would stop referencing the case "especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law" so as to let the judicial process play out as intended. He added, however, that he did not believe the comments unduly influenced the jury as they had been told not to watch the news. Waters urged protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where Duante Wright was recently shot by a police officer, to "stay in the street" as she joined the protests on Saturday and violated the local curfew. "We've got to stay in the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational," Waters said, referencing a scenario where Chauvin is not convicted. "We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business." As previously reported by Fox News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Monday that she did not believe Waters needed to apologize for her comments. She also said she did not think they would incite violence as local communities deal with intensifying protests. After three weeks of testimony, closing arguments began Monday in Chauvin’s trial. It is not clear how quickly the jury will reach a verdict. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #33 St. George Floyd is dead, and Derek Chauvin is alive. Where is the justce in that? /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2021-04-20 19:57 |
| #32 #30 Garth ESPN sent a notification on their app announcing the verdict. Shocking |
| Posted by: Beavis 2021-04-20 19:15 |
| #31 Now we all get it good and hard, even if we never voted for it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-20 19:10 |
| #30 you are going to start hearing from CNN etc. that the threatened riots couldn't influence the jury because they were sequestered They were not sequestered except while in the jury room (maybe not even then if they were allowed cell phones). The jury was told not to watch the news but even if they had been watching sports say, news announcements would have broken through. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-20 19:04 |
| #29 Why do we tolerate this shit? |
| Posted by: Grineck Flins8960 2021-04-20 18:42 |
| #28 8 more weeks to sentencing could be riots every week calling for enhanced sentencing |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-20 18:29 |
| #27 Saved the judge the trouble of overruling an acquittal with a directed verdict of guilty. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-20 18:17 |
| #26 Deliberated for, what? Ten minutes? A case with the most ambiguous and complicated evidence imaginable. Total shitshow. |
| Posted by: Crereter Ulolumble4382 2021-04-20 18:11 |
| #25 Antifa, BLM riots against the police, now a doper gets a cop sent to prison. Police are kapupt. Now the violent radical left can focus on coming after your guns. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-20 17:34 |
| #24 Teaching the BLM/ANtifa Movement that maximum intimidation works. Conviction for murder is absurd and clearly predicated on fear, not facts! When you trump justice with appeasement, you are destined to get neither! He will be dead withing 3 months, by his own hand or another. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-04-20 17:18 |
| #23 Judiciary does not want to be involved in an appeal on this any more than they wanted to be involved in 2020 election fraud. They will stand aside. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-04-20 17:11 |
| #22 Guilty on all counts. The jury obviously wanted the maximum possibility that verdict overturned on appeal is out of the question. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-20 17:10 |
| #21 Breaking: Jury Reaches Verdict In Derek Chauvin Case; To Be Read Imminently |
| Posted by: Beavis 2021-04-20 15:47 |
| #20 Incitement. Jury tampering. Criminal conspiracy. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto |
| Posted by: Spolurong Clins4701 2021-04-20 14:46 |
| #19 Biden made a highly prejudicial remark today adding to the parade. of interference in the judicial process. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-20 14:33 |
| #18 They all should be charged with jury tampering. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2021-04-20 14:24 |
| #17 ^ Just like the jurors, he can be expected to have the entirely reasonable fear of reprisals by "activists". But I think he'd be happy to see Chauvin go away. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-20 13:37 |
| #16 #14 "of course it's a mistrial - but you don't expect me to stick my neck out, do you?" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-20 12:36 |
| #15 It's amazing and sick at the same time, M. Murcek - for a lot of lefties, life is one big word game. One big Orwellian word game. If you screw up the language badly enough, people won't be able to think straight. That's OK. They'll tell us what to think. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-20 12:32 |
| #14 Cahill might be a liberal but he doesn't like members of the legislative branch stepping on his robes. But then, this might be his biggest concern, Cahill denied Nelson's motion for a mistrial but said that Waters’s weekend remarks could give the defense “something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.” |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-20 12:28 |
| #13 What LG said at #1. Seems like a very reasonable legal approach. However, we are not living in reasonable and legal times but well-stated nonetheless. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-04-20 11:44 |
| #12 The Minn State Tribune is set to dox the jurors, and their article was released, after deliberations started for maximum pressure. This is criminal jury tampering or intimidation! https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/04/20/it-happened-derek-chauvin-trial-jurors-now-partially-doxxed-as-they-deliberate-on-a-verdict-n365034 |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-04-20 11:42 |
| #11 If the jurors are aware of the judge's comment it could help them rationalize a 'guilty' verdict, since they could figure it would be overturned on appeal anyway. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-04-20 11:20 |
| #7 President prays for Chauvin verdict: George Floyd's brother reveals Joe Biden called him as jury retired to tell him that he's 'praying everything comes out ok' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-20 11:00 |
| #6 BLM protesters rally for ‘victim,’ leave after learning he was white |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-20 10:44 |
| #5 It's amazing and sick at the same time, M. Murcek - for a lot of lefties, life is one big word game. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-04-20 09:03 |
| #4 And the narrative frame is set. If Chauvin is acquitted (unlikely) or wins on appeal later (more likely) the leftist race-baiters will simply say "See, they twisted our words to suit their rayciss, white-supremacist goals! Waaaaaah!" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-20 07:45 |
| #3 As previously reported by Fox News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Monday that she did not believe Waters needed to apologize for her comments. She also said she did not think they would incite violence as local communities deal with intensifying protests. So what were the articles of the second impeachment there Nancy? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-04-20 07:09 |
| #2 But those words will never, ever incite an "insurrection". /sarc |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-04-20 00:16 |
| #1 Although Rep Waters remarks actually approached the inciting a riot level, Gov (of Minnesota) Waltz made prejudicial remarks this afternoon also. So did Mayor Frey (of Minneapolis). So did a dozen CNN folks. The judge should canvass the jury and if they have heard this stuff, it should be a mistrial. If we learn later that they heard this, a District court should overturn it. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-20 00:14 |