The trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd will be pushed back to March 2022, a judge ruled Thursday.
Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were scheduled to face trial Aug. 23 on charges that they aided and abetted both murder and manslaughter. The former officers’ co-defendant, Derek Chauvin, has already been. All four men also face federal charges that allege they violated Floyd’s civil rights during his arrest May 25, 2020.
Judge Peter Cahill said he pushed back the state trial for Lane, Kueng and Thao so that the federal case. He also said he felt the need to put some distance between the three officers’ trial and Chauvin’s because of all the publicity around the case. News of the postponement came during a hearing Thursday on pretrial motions. Defense attorneys for all three former officers agreed to the later date. But state Assistant Atty. Gen. Matthew Frank did not support the delay. It wasn’t made clear at Thursday’s hearing who sought the change.
Attorneys for Lane, Kueng and Thao have said they want the court to require prosecuting attorneys to submit affidavits under oath that they weren’t responsible for the leak to the media about Chauvin’s expected guilty plea. In a filing late Wednesday, Thao’s attorney also alleged that the Hennepin County medical examiner was coerced to include “neck compression” in his findings — and that prosecutors knew of it.
Thats disgraceful they said they would go to trial in September i hope they get a very long time in prison like chauvin is
fuck that shit they need to be held accountable right now!!!!
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