Attorneys for ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, will be in court on Wednesday asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to throw out the 2021 convictions.
Chauvin's attorneys believe legal and procedural errors, along with pretrial publicity, deprived him of a fair trial in Hennepin County. Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 months in prison after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Chauvin later pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison. He waived his right to a federal appeal and is serving the federal sentence concurrently with his state sentence in Arizona.
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Three other officers present during Floyd's murder have all been convicted and sentenced on both state and federal charges.
J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane took plea deals on state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Tou Thao declined to plead guilty and opted to allow Judge Cahill to decide his guilt based on stipulated evidence on one count of aiding and abetting manslaughter. No verdict has been announced.
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