Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results
contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

ScottW

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On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line”
causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Those necks don't compress themselves.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arrest-videos-undercut-derek-chauvins-murder-trial-defense-pathologist-tells-2021-04-09/

"Baker ruled last year that Floyd's death was a homicide caused by "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression." In short, he found that Floyd's heart stopped beating and his lungs stopped working because
Chauvin, 45, and other officers compressed him against the road in a way that starved his body of oxygen.

Other medical experts called by prosecutors have spent the past two days pointing to the unusually large amount of video of the death, from multiple angles, saying it shores up Baker's finding, and contradicts the defense theory of an overdose."

Reading into the lack of asphyxia in the report is a mistake:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-two-autopsies-of-george-floyd-arent-as-different-as-they-seem/

"... [I]t surprised a lot of people when the autopsy reports came across as saying that they’d found no evidence of asphyxiation.

That is both a misunderstanding of the report and an example of the difficulty in identifying cause of death, experts said. It’s a misunderstanding because an earlier legal document, put out to explain the charges against the officer who kneeled on
Floyd, said the county had found no injuries consistent with asphyxia caused by physical trauma. But the actual autopsy report doesn’t mention the word “asphyxia” at all. It does, however, describe “neck compression” as a direct cause of Floyd�
�s death — meaning the blood flow (and, thus, oxygen) to Floyd’s brain and heart were cut off. It doesn’t take physical trauma to asphyxiate someone."

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On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line”

causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?
Are you suggesting police are now prohibited from "restraint" of a person resisting arresting?

The only issue at play is the compression of the neck and it remains a question. Did the autopsy show any evidence the "neck compression" resulted in death?
It actually did not. And no matter how bad the video looks, you cannot tell from it if there was sufficient neck compression to cause death or even be a "contributing factor".

The issue raised now is did the ME doctor his conclusions to placate what he perceived as a public narrative, aka mob mentality, that would "threaten his career"?

Why would a former prosecutor in the DAs office lie about this?

ScottW

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On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:39:43 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line”

causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?

That doesn't apply in this case. Floyd died because neck compression stopped his blood oxygen. Those underlying conditions were noted as present. To adopt your COVID-speak, he died with heart disease, not from heart disease.

Consult the 538 article I cited. Once again you ask questions answered in stuff you snipped.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-two-autopsies-of-george-floyd-arent-as-different-as-they-seem/

"...death certificates and autopsy evaluations are set up to tell as detailed a story as possible — death happened, as a result of something, complicated by another thing, and maybe with other factors that were present. You’re supposed to compile the
full chain of events and all the possible compounding factors. But documenting potential contributing factors isn’t the same as saying that’s what caused the death."

Are you suggesting police are now prohibited from "restraint" of a person resisting arresting?

Somewhere between no restraint and kneeling on someone's neck for eight minutes is an allowable amount. Consult the Minneapolis police training curriculum to see what was allowed.

The only issue at play is the compression of the neck and it remains a question. Did the autopsy show any evidence the "neck compression" resulted in death?
It actually did not. And no matter how bad the video looks, you cannot tell from it if there was sufficient neck compression to cause death or even be a "contributing factor".

The resulting death is one clue but that's why they had an autopsy and not a video review. More from 538:

"But there’s no medical literature of what happens to a person’s body when someone kneels on their neck for more than eight minutes, as Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer now charged with second-degree murder, did to Floyd. So no medical
examiner can call up that data and compare it to what they found in Floyd’s body, Williams told me. The result, he said, has been whole listserves full of medical examiners going over the evidence in the Floyd case and arguing back and forth for the
past week about how they would write the report."

But not denying the cause of death.

The issue raised now is did the ME doctor his conclusions to placate what he perceived as a public narrative, aka mob mentality, that would "threaten his career"?

If so, he did a bad job as the report was widely criticized by the public and a second autopsy was performed.

Why would a former prosecutor in the DAs office lie about this?

She could quote him perfectly but be incorrect in her interpretation.

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MINe109 wrote:

Why would a former prosecutor in the DAs office lie about this?

She could quote him perfectly but be incorrect in her interpretation.

At least Witlessbigot has learned a lesson that still escapes Dumpster -
not saying the "quiet part" out loud. The unspoken subtext in Witless's
whining is that a White Man With A Badge was just "doing his job" by controlling a black man. And nothing has ever been wrong with that.

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On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:22:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:39:43 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line”

causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?

That doesn't apply in this case. Floyd died because neck compression stopped his blood oxygen.

That conclusion is now being questioned and her statement under oath in deposition of what the ME said also raised questions.
We'll have to wait and see if SCOTUS will take the case on appeal.

ScottW

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On 10/24/23 1:38 PM, Fascist Flea wrote:

MINe109 wrote:

The second Floyd autopsy did name asphyxia as cause of death.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277349/george-floyd-asphyxiation-autopsy-independent-homicide

I'd like to paraphrase Witless's jabbering:

"One less troublesome n - - - - r. Who the f*** cares?"

I think it's a RWNJ commitment to the bit: no issue is so debunked it
can't be revived.

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mINE109 wrote:

I'd like to paraphrase Witless's jabbering:

"One less troublesome n - - - - r. Who the f*** cares?"

I think it's a RWNJ commitment to the bit: no issue is so debunked it
can't be revived.

Your generosity of spirit is admirable.

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MINe109 wrote:

The second Floyd autopsy did name asphyxia as cause of death. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277349/george-floyd-asphyxiation-autopsy-independent-homicide

I'd like to paraphrase Witless's jabbering:

"One less troublesome n - - - - r. Who the f*** cares?"

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On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 11:12:19 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:22:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:39:43 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line�

� causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?

That doesn't apply in this case. Floyd died because neck compression stopped his blood oxygen.

That conclusion is now being questioned and her statement under oath in deposition of what the ME said also raised questions.

Says Tucker Carlson. This jump to conclusions is not supported by anything you quoted and you haven't supplied a link to the deposition or any source, credible or not. That the ME shared his concern about the importance of his ruling beforehand is not
evidence of falsification.

We'll have to wait and see if SCOTUS will take the case on appeal.

I doubt SCOTUS is going to address this former prosecutor's lawsuit because it includes a deposition with conjecture that can be misinterpreted as saying the ME report was falsified.

The relevant case would be that of Chauvin, but his appeal, which the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to hear, doesn't dispute the fact he killed Floyd. Chauvin's appeal ruling:

https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Opinion-Published.pdf

At 8:19 p.m., the four officers removed Floyd from the squad car and forced him into a prone position by pressing him against the ground with his face and stomach facing down. Chauvin pressed his left knee into Floyd’s neck and placed his right knee on
Floyd’s back... Almost immediately, Floyd stopped resisting and started telling the officers that he could not breathe, which he repeated multiple times...

Some bystanders asked Chauvin to get off Floyd. However, Chauvin did not take his knee off Floyd’s neck and release him until an ambulance arrived and the paramedics rolled the gurney next to Floyd. At no point did Chauvin give medical aid to Floyd or
allow anyone else to do so.

The period of restraint lasted approximately nine minutes and 29 seconds in total, from the time that the officers initially placed Floyd into the prone position until the time that Chauvin lifted his knee off Floyd’s neck and released him. Shortly
thereafter, Floyd was pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center. Dr. Andrew Baker, Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner, conducted an autopsy of Floyd’s body and identified the immediate cause of death as “cardiopulmonary arrest
complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Dr. Baker explained at trial that this refers to a sudden loss of heart and respiratory functions occurring in the process of law enforcement subduing and restraining Floyd and
Chauvin applying pressure on Floyd’s neck.

End quote.

Floyd was deprived of blood flow, causing his heart to stop.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459192/

"1. External pressure to the jugular veins prevents adequate venous return from the cerebral circulation. Backpressure prevents eventual arterial inflow and results in elevated intracranial pressures. This ultimately results in unconsciousness, depressed
brainstem functions, and ultimately asphyxia and death.

2. External pressure to the carotid arteries directly prevents oxygenated blood flow to the cerebral vasculature which leads to asphyxia and death.

3. Pressure obstruction of the larynx primarily results in the inability to oxygenate the pulmonary vasculature. Systemic hypoxia quickly ensues of which the most pronounced effects are rapid loss of consciousness followed by death.

Though rare, cardiac dysrhythmias may occur with pressure directed towards the carotid bodies bilaterally. This has the potential to evoke cardiac arrest, and subsequent death if not promptly recognized."

The second Floyd autopsy did name asphyxia as cause of death.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277349/george-floyd-asphyxiation-autopsy-independent-homicide


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On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 11:36:29 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 11:12:19 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:22:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:39:43 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition

reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top

line” causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?

That doesn't apply in this case. Floyd died because neck compression stopped his blood oxygen.

That conclusion is now being questioned and her statement under oath in deposition of what the ME said also raised questions.

Says Tucker Carlson. This jump to conclusions is not supported by anything you quoted and you haven't supplied a link to the deposition or any source, credible or not. That the ME shared his concern about the importance of his ruling beforehand is not

evidence of falsification.

We'll have to wait and see if SCOTUS will take the case on appeal.

I doubt SCOTUS is going to address this former prosecutor's lawsuit

Chauvin's case is being appealed and this is an obvious line for the defense to pursue.

ScottW

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On 10/25/23 11:15 AM, ScottW wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 11:36:29 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 11:12:19 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:22:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:39:43 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

On Monday, October 23, 2023 at 5:23:40 AM UTC-7, MINe109 wrote:

On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7:48:50 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:

Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Sweasy is in the midst of a lawsuit against her boss. She alleged in her deposition that an autopsy found no indications that Floyd was murdered.

Sweasy said in her deposition that Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy, withheld and lied about the true cause of death as he feared the public’s reaction. He allegedly told Sweasy that the autopsy results

contradicted the public’s narrative.

“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ … and then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers,'” the deposition reads.

So the Medical Examiner was afraid of the mob and instead unwittingly unleashed the mob across America in a series of violent protests that by generally accepted counts took the lives of 25 people.
All because a coward lied to save his career.

What a mess. Your paraphrasing, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-thomas-lane-homicide-76841a4d8c62df790bad5d81b23e894d

"Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County’s chief medical examiner, said Floyd died after police “subdual, restraint and neck compression” caused his heart and lungs to stop. He said heart disease and drug use were factors but not the “top line”

causes. He said Floyd had an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal, as well as narrowed arteries."

Explain to me how police are responsible for a person resisting arrest dies from natural causes (or underlying medical conditions) that result in death from the stress of resisting arrest?

That doesn't apply in this case. Floyd died because neck compression stopped his blood oxygen.

That conclusion is now being questioned and her statement under oath in deposition of what the ME said also raised questions.

Says Tucker Carlson. This jump to conclusions is not supported by anything you quoted and you haven't supplied a link to the deposition or any source, credible or not. That the ME shared his concern about the importance of his ruling beforehand is not

evidence of falsification.

We'll have to wait and see if SCOTUS will take the case on appeal.

I doubt SCOTUS is going to address this former prosecutor's lawsuit

Chauvin's case is being appealed and this is an obvious line for the defense to pursue.

I cited the appeal and the facts, including Floyd's cause of death, were
not questioned. Since I am not a lawyer, I don't know what steps he
would have to take to set aside facts recognized in his trial.

From the previous cite:

DECISION

Police officers undoubtedly have a challenging, difficult, and sometimes dangerous job. However, no one is above the law. When they commit a
crime, they must be held accountable just as those individuals that they lawfully apprehend. The law only permits police officers to use
reasonable force when effecting a lawful arrest. Chauvin crossed that
line here when he used unreasonable force on Floyd.
We hold that, when a criminal defendant moves to change venue, continue
trial, or sequester the jury alleging that publicity surrounding the
trial created either actual or presumed juror prejudice, a district
court does not abuse its discretion by denying the motions if it takes sufficient mitigating steps and verifies that the jurors can set aside
their impressions or opinions and deliver a fair and impartial verdict.
We also hold that a police officer can be convicted of second-degree unintentional felony murder for causing the death of another by using unreasonable force constituting third-degree assault to effect a lawful
arrest.

In addition, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its
discretion by (1) denying Chauvin’s request for a Schwartz hearing; (2)
its jury instructions; (3) allowing the state to present seven witnesses
on the use-of-force issue; (4) excluding from admission a presentation
slide from MPD training materials; (5) denying Chauvin’s new-trial
motion based on alleged prosecutorial misconduct; (6) excluding an
unavailable witness’s out-of- court statement; and (7) departing upward
from the presumptive range under the sentencing guidelines. We further
conclude that Chauvin is not entitled to a new trial based upon the
district court’s failure to ensure that sidebar conferences were
transcribed and that any alleged cumulative error did not deny Chauvin a
fair trial. Finally, we decline to address Chauvin’s challenge to his third-degree-murder conviction because the district court did not
convict Chauvin of or sentence him for this offense.

Affirmed.

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