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Mr. Mitchell’s impartiality and candor during jury selection were called into question this week with the discovery of an online photo showing the 31-year-old juror wearing the shirt in August at a Washington, D.C., march.
Eric Nelson, attorney for Derek Chauvin, filed a motion Tuesday asking for a new trial on multiple grounds, including the judge’s refusal to move the trial or sequester the jury, and requested a hearing on juror misconduct.
The motion did not mention Mr. Mitchell, but “let’s face it, the only real reason he’s doing it is because of Mitchell. That’s the real reason,” said Joseph Tamburino, a Minneapolis criminal defense attorney who served as an expert analyst on the trial.
Yesterday, we called out Morning Joe for mentioning George Floyd six times but failing to breathe a word about the Chauvin trial juror who wore a BLM hat, and a T-shirt emblazoned "Get Your Knee of Our Necks" to a protest rally in Washington DC that Al Sharpton's organization had billed as the 'Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,' and at which several members of the Flo