The judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin blasted the incendiary comments from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and said that they could lead to the overturn of the trial if the defense chose to appeal the ruling.
Chauvin is on trial for the death of George Floyd during an arrest on May 25 in Minneapolis. His attorney Eric Nelson argued Monday for a mistrial based on the fact that jurors were exposed to public comments because they had not been sequestered during the trial.
“It is so pervasive. I just don’t know how this jury can really be said to be that they are free from the taint of this,” Nelson said. “Now that we have U.S. representatives threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case, it’s mind-boggling to me, judge!”
“I will give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned,” responded Judge Peter Cahill.
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Cahill did not grant the defense’s request for a mistrial, but he went on to excoriate Waters for her comments.
“This goes back to what I’ve been saying from the beginning. I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law, and to the judicial branch and our function,” the judge said.
“I think if they want to give their opinions they should do so in a respectful and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution to respect a coequal branch of government,” he added.
“Their failure to do so is abhorrent!” he added.
Cahill went on to say that he did not believe the jury would be prejudiced by Waters’ comments because they had been instructed to not watch television.
“A congresswoman’s opinion really doesn’t matter a whole lot. Anyway,” Cahill said.
Waters has been castigated by many for the comments she made on Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, calling for more protests and telling protesters to “get more confrontational” over the trial of Chauvin.
““A congresswoman’s opinion really doesn’t matter a whole lot. Anyway,” Cahill said.”
I think it conveys the right to be violent to those thugs and ignorant “in the streets”.
Ok. I am an independent and unaffiliated voter. I watched the scene on January 6th. I listened as a democratically led legislature held POTUS responsible for his comments just prior to the storming of the capital building. And then I watch a trial where the theme constantly being played was that if Trump had not spoken, this never would have happened. So…… how is what Maxine Waters is doing any different than Trump? Actually she is very aggressively calling for more confrontation! She needs to be held accountable as well.
TLC, you have it right , the rich Bitches and elected officials or not get away with what ever they want to do and then blame it on Trump .It is Bull and we know it . Talk about the privileged in this country it all goes where the money is best. The day to day workers would be arrested and thrown in jail for what Waters did , do you want to take odds she gets away with it? It is high time they started to pay for their shit just as other Americans , who by the way PAY THEIR PAYCHECKS . LOCK HER UP AND TEACH THE HIGH AND MIGHTY ARE NOT ABOVE AMERICA’S LAWS!!!!! What’s good for one is good for all and money should not buy them privileges.
Explore Minnesota, IT’S A RIOT!
Waters is a disgrace to humanity, plain and simple.
Mad Max(ine) is so ignorant she is not conversant with proper English – yet somehow, she became a member of CONGRESS! Unfathomable! Almost every sentence she said – YELLED – betrays her ignorance! “If nothing is not done – – -“!!?? Lady, (?), “If nothing is not done”, means something IS done! It’s called a double-negative. You probably don’t know what that means either and If I tried to explain it to you, you wouldn’t listen, because I’m white – and you’ve made it abundantly clear that, Like Assleigh Shackelfart (sic), you “Hates white Peepul”!
The easy answer is that she is from commiefornia, thus matching the ignorance level of every other “elected” idiot from that state. Pray for the San Andreas to do its job and end this BS.
Having been in Law Enforcement for over 30 years and involved in the criminal justice system for that length of time, if i were the judge i would have declared a mistrial in a second. Based on the comments of “big mouth” Auntie Maxine, BLM and the “elected by fraud”, “Pervert Joe”, the jurors were scared to death of the repercussions if they had based their verdict on the facts which they did not.
TOOT TOOT!. Yall hear that train? That’s the big BLUE train that Officer Chauven was run over with by his own police dept, and political powers that be. As usual the jury ( aka stacked deck ) only considered the the political wishes and concerns of a minority of people rather than looking at the simple fact that Floyd was a habitchual criminal and the officer was doing what his own dept trained him to do. Mad MAxine , Biden , and has been Obama along with the media should keep their self serving pie holes shut. Welcome back to the wild west people , lynch mobs and mob mentality at it’s finest.
Very well put and nothing but fact