No one's talking about the Chauvin trial?

[rjmacs]

sekker wrote:
I think the defense is going to shoot to add ANY doubt that this was a murder to get that charge removed. If the defense can call a single medical professional raising question whether anything in Floyd's system could have contributed to his death, murder seems out to me.

That's not how murder convictions typically work. You can have an underlying medical condition, or be under the influence of drugs, and still be a victim of homicide. The question is whether the victim would have died without the actions of the defendant, and in this case whether the victim would have survived his treatment by the cop under typical circumstances. In this case, there's no clear reason that Chauvin needed to keep his knee on Floyd's neck after he was subdued and handcuffed. It's standard procedure to move a detainee onto their side or to a kneeling position after they are subdued and restrained in cuffs. Chauvin sat on this man's neck until he was dead, for no reason.