Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted in April 2021 of murdering George Floyd, has appealed his conviction, arguing that he was deprived of a fair trial.
His attorney, William Mohrman, filed a petition for review with the Minnesota Supreme Court on May 17, arguing that the district judge’s decision not to move the proceedings out of the city deprived his client of a fair trial.
“We’re very hopeful that the Minnesota Supreme Court will accept review of the case,” Mohrman said.
In his petition, Morhman argued that the case presents the state Supreme Court with important questions on “developing and clarifying due process requirements to transfer venue when there is unprecedented pervasive pretrial publicity coupled with community violence.”…