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The development could delay Chauvin’s trial, which is due to begin with jury selection on Monday.
Floyd, who was Black, died on 25 May after Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on his neck while he was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn’t breathe.
The killing, which a bystander recorded on video, sparked the biggest civil rights uprising in the US since the 1960s, spilling over at times into rioting but reinvigorating the Black Lives Matter movement and forcing a fresh reckoning on police brutality and broader, systemic racism.
The Minnesota court said the Hennepin county district judge Peter Cahill erred last year when he rejected a prosecution motion to reinstate the third-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
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As Minneapolis prepares for its most anticipated murder trial in recent memory, the charges and discovery issues remain unresolved.
Barricades are set up outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis ahead of the Derek Chauvin murder trial. (Courthouse News photo/Andy Monserud)
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) Just over nine months after video of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck sparked protests and riots around the globe, jury selection for Chauvin’s murder trial is scheduled to begin Monday.
It promises to be one of the highest-profile trials in Minnesota history, and has become a showcase for several criminal-law questions and a battleground for police-accountability activists even as it places the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on high alert for a repeat of last summer’s riots.