Recommendable! More on the miscarriage of justice!
"... And so when he was done with his argument, which lasted for like two and a half, two and three-quarters hours, the prosecution lawyers approached the judge and they said, “We want the court to re-read the instruction that says that the arguments of the lawyers are not evidence. And if you find that a lawyer has misstated either the facts or the law, you should disregard it.” And the judge did that. …
The way it goes in closing in a criminal case, it’s prosecution, defense, prosecution, right? So before the prosecutor got up for his rebuttal argument, the judge actually re-read that instruction to the jury, basically telling them that the defense lawyer was making stuff up.He had two to three times a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system, George Floyd did. The prosecution’s argument was 11 nanograms per milliliter. That would kill a normal person, but it maybe wouldn’t kill George Floyd because he was an addict so his tolerance is higher. ...
But I know there’s a study out there that says that even among opioid addicts, 9 nanograms was the median overdose that caused fatality, George Floyd was at 11. So I would have found an expert that would say he died of a drug overdose, not anything that the officers did. ..."
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