Minnesota court vacates Minneapolis cop's murder conviction; will there be more violence?

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Nothing will happen if the court throws out Chauvin’s third degree murder conviction - because Chauvin wasn’t sentenced for the third degree murder charge - he was sentenced for the second-degree murder charge.

Both Noor and Chauvin were charged with second-degree manslaughter, third-degree murder and second degree murder.

Chauvin was convicted of all three, while Noor was only convicted of manslaughter and third-degree murder.

Third-degree murder was the highest charge Noor was convicted of - and since that conviction was vacated, Noor must be re-sentenced under the manslaughter conviction.

Chauvin, on the other hand, was convicted of second-degree murder as well - so vacating the third-degree murder charge will have no effect, as he was sentenced under the second-degree murder charge.

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Let’s try and keep the mob out of it next time so they can do things properly.

Yeah right. :rofl:

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Is this the “re-sentence”?

He will now be sentenced to a presumptive four years for manslaughter and could be eligible for supervised release around the end of this year.

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Yes.

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Approximately 3 years for murder? No matter how you skin this one, that doesn’t seem just.

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Manslaughter, not murder.

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The court has ruled that essentially a legal technicality means that Mohamed Noor was not guilty of murder.

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He fired his gun, over his partner, from with in his patrol car…killing an innocent woman. That’s murder and there is no excuse for it.

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Yes, Chauvin’s sentence is based only on the second-degree murder conviction.

The real violence will come if Chauvin’s convictions are overturned based on intimidation and threats during the trial. Any retrial should not include third-degree murder as a charge.

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The law is *technicalities," that’s how laws works.

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Justice was not done…period.

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Where you been the last few years while everyone was needling me about technically not illegal?

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The difference is that “technicalities” are legal arguments, not moral arguments.

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I find it pretty unlikely that Chauvin’s conviction will be overturned, since as far as I can tell, he never actually appealled his conviction.

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Yes, that is also how it works in Russia.

State surveillance means that authorities have enough to convict practically anyone on multiple felonies. Prosecutorial discretion decides everything. Anyone would who embarrasses Putin is singled out for prosecution.

We have a similar situation in the US. Anyone who threatens the official narratives from Democratic Party is prosecuted to the full extent of the law while who those support the party-line are protected.

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the 2nd degree conviction is problematic itself.