A Minnesota judge has begun screening jurors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman facing murder and manslaughter charges for his role in the death of George Floyd during an arrest that caused an outcry around the world.
"There is no need for this kind of uncertainty in any case, let alone a case of this magnitude," the prosecutors from the Minnesota attorney general's office wrote in their petition to the appeals court. Mr Chauvin, dressed in a light gray suit, a blue shirt, a dark tie and a black face mask, briefly stood when his lawyer introduced him to the panel.
He was released from jail on a $1 million bond last October and is being tried in a courtroom in the Hennepin County Government Center, a tower in downtown Minneapolis now ringed with barbed-wire fencing and concrete barricades for fear of disruption by protesters.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)