The attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former police officer of Minneapolis charged for the death of George Floyd, has requested for a delay and relocation of the trial, pointing to concerns about the impact of the settlement the city had reached with Floyd’s family. “I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday related to the civil settlement,” the defense lawyer Eric Nelson told the judge on Monday, according to The Hill. “The fact that this came in the exact middle of jury selection is perplexing to me, your honor.” Nelson told Judge Peter Cahill of Hennepin County District Court before his motion this was the third “highly prejudicial and incredibly prejudicial press leak or press release” he has experienced during the case “that has very suspicious timing, to say the least, and has an incredible propensity to taint a jury pool,” Fox News reported. Cahill responded that he …