A judge has approved the testing of George Floyd's tissue samples as part of Derek Chauvin's appeal against his federal conviction for violating Floyd's civil rights.
A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin 's lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd 's body examined. It's part of the former Minneapolis police officer's efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd's civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd's 2020 killing. US District Judge Paul Magnuson granted the order Monday, agreeing to let the defence examine Floyd's heart tissue and fluid samples.
This will be done to test a theory that Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumour, not — as prosecutors contend — from asphyxiation caused by the white officer pressing his knee on the Black man's neck for nine-and-a-half minutes in May 2020. Chauvin's federal defender for his appeal attempt, Robert Meyers, argued that Chauvin's original attorney, Eric Nelson, failed to inform his client that an outside pathologist not directly involved in the case, Dr. William Schaetzel, had contacted Nelson before Chauvin entered his plea and offered an unsolicited theory that Chauvin did not cause Floyd's death. But federal prosecutors have argued in court filings that Nelson made a reasonable 'tactical decision' not to explore an untested opinion 'offered by someone holding himself out as an expert'
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