Fox News correspondent Matt Finn joins Special Report live from Minneapolis.
A panel of jurors is deliberating the fate of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged in the May 2020 death of George Floyd, but there’s no clear answer as to how long it will take for the panel to deliberate charges against Chauvin.
After more than two weeks of witness testimony and hours of attorney arguments, Chauvin’s fate is now in the hands of a 12-person jury, which has been sequestered during deliberations, and the jurors whereabouts have been kept secret throughout the process.
The jury began deliberating midday Monday and is expected to mull a possible conviction every day from 10 a.m. to approximately 8:30 p.m. ET until a verdict is reached. That said, Judge Peter Cahill has told the jurors he wants them to make their own schedules, which means deliberation times are subject to change.
some of the things that have happened. you never know what a jury will do. griff: you never know with a jury. if you put yourself in those jurors shoes how would you see, this don? i don t think i would find him guilty of the murder. you know, i think if, you know, they don t have an autopsy so they don t know what killed the isis fighter. but, certainly there is credible evidence that chief gallagher that could be an aggravated assault. the text messages, the pictures. military juries are very smart. this jury composition is very interesting having five marines two sailors, one seal. griff: don, we shall see. very interesting. thank you for taking time join us today. thanks for having me. griff: free college, free healthcare, free cash. the dems want to give it all away. the next guest says we have enough to make it all happen. really? you have got to hear this.
there is one holdout here. i don t know that that s actually true. last week that appeared to be true. on friday. yes. but today, what the jurors suggested was that a majority of them could not come to the conclusion. so we don t know anymore whether it was 11-1, whether that was in fact accurate last week, whether they went back and deliberated. it s clear that there were 11 white people on this jury and one african-american man and that s a systemic problem that needs to be dealt with for the retrial. which struck me as somewhat odd because i was in north charleston. it s an interesting place. a little like ferguson, actually, a suburb of charleston that has become majority black. i think it s 60 to 40%. it s odd that that s the jury composition. it s not odd and the defense actually did strike i think seven of the nine jurors struck
charleston. it s an interesting place. a little like ferguson, actually, a suburb of charleston that has become majority black. i think it s 60 to 40%. it s odd that that s the jury composition. it s not odd and the defense actually did strike i think seven of the nine jurors struck by the defense were minorities. five of them were african-american. two were latino. the prosecution did raise a challenge, challenging the striking of the jurors based on race and after hearing the explanations offered by the defense dropped it. so we don t know just to be clear, that is named for the plaintiff in a supreme court case in which the supreme court ruled it s unconstitutional to use race solely as the means of getting rid of a juror. after batson, lawyers are able to give a nonreasonable reasoning for their strike. people get around it all the
anomaly in alatin and one that will just be a mark on this case. if there s a conviction in this case, it will be something that will be dealt with by the appellate court without any doubt. i m thinking it was silliness to not grant the defense motion and revisit the jury composition. every lawyer in town is talking about that. shepard: how could they not? what do you know about the judge and how something like this could happen? well, of course the judge and all the parts are coming here from brunswick, georgia, from the coast. about 35, 40 miles south of savannah. another world compared to metropolitan atlanta. the big city is jacksonville florida. how this happened is purely an anomaly and, again, everybody in this town, all the lawyers on both sides of the courtroom, prosecution and defense, are scratching their heads. shepard: and you think upon