I previously wrote that the key to conviction in the Derek Chauvin trial (and avoiding a cascading failure in all four cases) is the autopsy findings and the role of drugs (including fentanyl) in the body of George Floyd.
Prosecutors are now asking the jury to effectively dismiss the findings of the only official autopsy in the case and insist, contrary to those findings, that Floyd died from asphyxia, or, lack of oxygen. Some new disclosures may make that claim more difficult for the prosecution.
Last week, special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell admitted to jurors that Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker pointed to cardiac arrest as Floyd’s cause of death. However, he insisted that the state would prove that “was … not a fatal heart event,” but asphyxiation.
It is a bold move since it could invite reasonable doubt on the cause of death. The question is whether a case of manslaughter could have been advanced without the need of opposing the state’s own coroner on such findings. The failure of Chauvin to respond to a medical emergency speaks more to manslaughter than murder but it could be framed consistently with these findings. Instead, the prosecution has asked the jury to effectively reject the coroner’s findings — a risky maneuver.
Criminal prosecution
That is the way these crooked Democrat Judges, Lawyers, etc play the game. If they want you convicted regardless they will make up what they need to whether it is true or not. That is why so many are in prison now that never committed a crime. I am not saying the officer was not wrong for 9 minutes but the autopsy says one thing and they want it to change to what they want it to say. To me that is just as criminal and corrupt.
Fentanyl suppresses your breathing. That is how you die from overdose! The problem is they can’t prove reasonable doubt if they don’t know if it was the fentanyl that stopped his breathing or something else.
Autopsy results are legitimate facts for the jurors to hear and use to help them make intelligent decisions in deliberation & results in their decision guilty or innocent. There is an attempt now to control facts thus controlling the outcome we can’t allow that to happen.