MINNEAPOLIS – Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filed another petition for postconviction relief in Hennepin County District Court seeking to overturn his conviction of second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd.
Chauvin argues his conviction should be vacated and he should either be given a new trial or an evidentiary hearing over what he claims was faulty medical methodology and testimony over Floyd’s cause of death, misrepresentation of Minneapolis Police Department training and faulty jury instructions.
Attorney Gregory Joseph wrote in a 71-page memorandum attached to Chauvin’s filing that “while the postconviction relief stage of many criminal cases is generally something of an afterthought, this Court is removed from the hysteria of the day and can finally look at the facts and evidence through a clear lens.”…