judge peter cahill denied chauvin s motion for a new trial. his defense team argued there was prosecutorial and jury misconduct in april. they will likely take those same arguments to an appeals court. but for now, the sentencing will go on. again, that s happening in just a few minutes. let s go now to cnn s omar jimenez outside of that courthouse. cnn s sara sidner is there at the intersection where george floyd was killed. omar, first, to you, what can we expect to see in the courtroom today? well, in a few minutes, when things get going, victor, we re going to hear from a number of parties, mainly we re going to hear from prosecutors and the defense on what they feel should happen when it comes to derek chauvin s sentence, and we ve already gotten a few clues of that based on things they ve filed. for example, prosecutors want derek chauvin to get 30 years in prison for murdering george floyd, while the defense wants probation and time served or at the very least, a sentence belo
0 want to i ve spoken to debbie w wasserman schultz, and i promise you the administration, the congress are doing everything to be of assistance now and after this occurs. after they decide exactly what the state of play is. but i m glad to welcome everyone here to the adjunct to the white house here, in-person and virtually. survivors and family members, victims and the path breaking leaders like senator baldwin, just over five years ago, the pulse nightclub, a place of acceptance and joy, became a place of unspeakable pain and loss. and we ll never fully recover, but we ll remember, and we have to what we re going to do is with the members of congress here did, enshrine in law, as a consequence of that law, enshrine in perpetuity a literal monument to the loss that occurred there and an absolute determination that we re going to deal with this every single solitary day, and make sure that we re not in a position to see this happen again. behind me, you see on either board there t
get a full new trial due to potential jury misconduct. as it turns out the juror from 2004 murder trial did not disclose that she had previously thought of a restraining order against someone him in connection with her own pregnancy and concern for her own unborn baby. so now a judge will decide if this qualifies as a juror misconduct and if it s enough to read try the entire case. scott peterson and his attorneys want him to maintain his innocence in his attorneys say they are very confident they can prove he is not guilty if they are allowed to submit more evidence in a new trial. hearing is scheduled for tuesday on the potential jury misconduct. the judge said she hopes to make a decision sometime this year. jon: christina coleman in los angeles thank you. president biden calling for a probe into the origins of coronavirus but is he doing enough to stand up to beijing? gordon chang on back, coming up.
the female jurors had done home experiments where they had showered and air dried. they were testing out this theory of how quickly the body dries coming out of the tub or shower? yes. at home? at home. if the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judge s instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. attorney mark godsey runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. it s unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors had violated the rules and performed experiments and brought that into the deliberations. the judge began reviewing affidavits from the jurors about just what went on during the deliberations. in one of those sworn statements, a juror said of those taboo home experiments, the times to air dry influenced my decision. jurors are not supposed to go home and do experiments.
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