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? asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 6 days ago

Why is the defense attorney for Chauvin trial talking for more than 2 hours straight?

Updated 6 days ago:

Excessive rambling. You can tell he's running out of breath

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  • Anonymous
    6 days ago

    officer's death on 'Fox News Primetime

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9Z58aCzhA

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 days ago

    I was impressed.  This case is tough for the defense but he actually did the best he could have done.  Of course, it doesn't help he looks like the guy who when he was a kid all the bullies would punch him in the face for lunch money but he can't change his face or his voice which sounds like he still lives in his mom's basement.  There was definitely resistance to arrest but what I don't understand is how 4 cops cannot get a guy in a squad car.  Sounds like a bad joke.  From what I see, even if they were able to put him in the car, I think he would still have a problem breathing and die when he arrives to the station.  It's just bad luck for these cops to encounter a ticking time bomb that is waiting to go off anytime.  Perhaps they need to rewrite the handbook and have the cops tranquilize the criminal first like they do at the zoo and then put the criminal in the car without any resistance.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    You have heard of the filibuster in the Senate.  This is the identical process here.  The idea is to wear down the jury with so much rhetoric that the facts of the case are hidden.  It is usually a sign of desperation where the facts themselves are not sufficient.

  • Bruce
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    It is called "due process" and anyone accused of a crime is granted it as a Constitutional right. 

  • Anonymous
    6 days ago

    "Because he can."  I'm not seeing him running out of breath, by the way.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    Why Raybo, the ONLY reason a lawyer would do that would be to make 'flakes like yourself FEEL even worse than they already do.

     

    Didn't moms or your "teachers" learn you that simple fact, son?  Oh...oh...that's too bad.

  • 6 days ago

    He's got nothing to lose doing so.

  • Kathy
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    The longer he talks, the longer it will take for the jury to decide the verdict.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 days ago

    Billable hours.

  • 6 days ago

    He's trying to cover up the fact that his client is guilty, and that there is no actual argument that can refute that basic truth.

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