Gadfly,
I guess your resistant suspects (how many?) have all been fairly easy projects. I've been parts of a couple of dozen fights where "3 total officers" was nowhere near enough. Being a fed (based on your FLETC reference) and thereby having lots of help in most arrests is a shitload different than being by yourself or with one cover officer on late nights patrol if somebody decides to fight you like the third monkey on Noah's Ark. Also, having cuffs on somebody is no guarantee that trouble is over. I've had meth folks continue to be an absolute shitstorm even with cuffs on.
Regional Government Sales Manager for Aimpoint, Inc. USA
Co-owner Hardwired Tactical Shooting (HiTS)
Process question while the deliberations go on...What happens in the event of a Hung jury? Is the trial over at this point? Or is it declared a mistrial and we start again?
I did some searching and came out with this explanation:
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2021/...chauvin-trial/
Is this accurate?
I don't feel like reading the article but generally, the judge will first try to get the jurors to continue deliberating until they say there is no possibility of a unanimous verdict.
If it were hung on all charges, (unlikely), then it would be up to the prosecution whether they wanted to present the case at trial again. They have that option. (I am not a lawyer, speaking only from my own experiences in courtrooms over the course of a career. Others will have more and deeper knowledge.)
There's nothing civil about this war.
Regarding jury deliberations and instructions: is the court going to instruct the jury to consider lesser included offenses (such as a manslaughter) or just up or down on the murder charge alone?
Regional Government Sales Manager for Aimpoint, Inc. USA
Co-owner Hardwired Tactical Shooting (HiTS)
RJ's linked article seems solid based on general legal principles.
I have not done any independent research of MN law.
I am not your attorney. I am not giving legal advice. Any and all opinions expressed are personal and my own and are not those of any employer-past, present or future.
News stories now that state POTUS has provided more ammo for a mistrial or an appeal if convicted. I have a feeling the trial judge may want to redo his "sequester the jury" decision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nneapolis.html
So now members of the two branches of fed.gov are putting pressure on the jurors.
There's nothing civil about this war.
I may be repeating what has been said. It sounds as if Justice Dept attorneys are going to charge Chauvin with a civil rights violation in case he is acquitted or found guilty on one of the lesser charges. The state and the feds have him in their sights. Too I saw that schools and students are now having walk outs and beating the drum against this man.