Hamline University legal and political analyst David Schulz says today’s decision by the judge in the Derek Chauvin case is not surprising — that the court has done everything it could, and has to assume at this point that the jury is impartial. Schultz says, “Were Derek Chauvin to be convicted on any of the three charges, I suspect that one of the grounds of appeal — and I’m pretty sure they’re [the defense] going to appeal, will be to claim that… the pre-trial publicity all rendered it impossible to get a fair trial in Hennepin County.”
Schultz says it’s possible the case on appeal could drag out three or four years, and might even make it to the U-S Supreme Court.