Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota s only maximum-security prison, held in a single cell for his own safety, but it will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns his sentence for George Floyd s death.
The 12 jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd had three counts to consider and returned guilty verdicts on all three.
For example, if a defendant is convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman two crimes against one victim a judge would issue a sentence on each count, and could rule that they be served at the same time or consecutively, said former Hennepin County chief public defender Mary Moriarty.
That’s not the case here, Moriarty said. “This case involved three different theories of the same behavior toward the same person.”
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MINNEAPOLIS – Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison, held in a single cell for his own safety. But it will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns his sentence for George Floyd’s death.
Chauvin, 45, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the Black man said he couldn’t breathe.
Even though he was found guilty of three counts, under Minnesota statutes he’ll only be sentenced on the most serious one – second-degree murder. While that count carries a maximum sentence of 40 years, experts say he won’t get that much. They say that for all practical purposes, the maximum he would face is 30 years, and he could get less.
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