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MINNEAPOLIS Attorneys for Tou Thao, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with playing a role in the death of George Floyd, Jr., filed an explosive motion Wednesday which accuses the top official responsible for Floyd’s autopsy of being “coerced by the State and its agents” into changing his professional assessments of Floyd’s condition into medical opinions that were favorable to the prosecution at trial.
Thao’s defense alleges that a fellow forensic pathologist threatened to publish a negative article against Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker unless Baker conceded that Floyd died in part from “neck compression” by ex-officer Derek Chauvin, who has since been convicted of murder. The attorneys go on to argue that the alleged strong-armed tactics have prevented the defense from securing experts willing to testify on Thao’s behalf, Law&Crime reported.
WATERLOO â Seneca County has hired a former U.S. Attorney General and Solicitor General to file a petition with the Supreme Court of the United States.
Paul Clement, a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, will prepare a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, asking it to hear an appeal of lower-court rulings favoring the Cayuga Nation in a tax-foreclosure case that began in 2013.
Clement, 54, has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court, as well as many of the key cases in lower federal courts involving challenges to former President George W. Bushâs administration and its conduct in the war on terrorism.