Read Derek Chauvin’s New Petition … And Weep For American Justice

Read Derek Chauvin’s New Petition … And Weep For American Justice

Let’s get right into it, shall we?

Attorney Gregory Joseph has filed a Petition for Postconviction Relief seeking to vacate the 2021 second-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis Department Officer Derek Chauvin related to the death of pseudo-saint George Floyd. (News of which you certainly missed because, despite its sensational assertions, it was largely swept under the rug by legacy media.)

Why now? As counsel expresses in a 71-page memorandum accompanying the petition, in the vain hope (to somewhat give away the conclusion here) that “removed from the hysteria of the day,” a court “can finally look at the facts and evidence through a clear lens … without the pressure of the public mood.”

No one contests that Officer Chauvin restrained the struggling suspect by kneeling either on his back or neck, “depending on the perspective of the video,” per the petition.

Rather, the attorney maintains, the “case resolved to two issues: (1) intent – was the restraint of George Floyd consistent with MPD policy and practice, and (2) causation – did the way the officers restrain(ed) George Floyd cause his death?”

Joseph presents a compelling – one could almost argue slam-dunk – case that the answers to those questions are “(1) yes” and “(2) no.”
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But this commentator will instead posit a brutal near-certainty: regardless of the passage of time and the seeming mountain of evidence of Chauvin’s innocence – and even of prosecutorial misconduct – no court will act to vacate his conviction and grant a new trial, or even grant the fallback request of fresh evidentiary hearings.

Because no judge wants to take on the extraordinary burden of potentially lighting the fuse that ignites a new season of coast-to-coast riots in the name of “attack(ing) some of the core beliefs and structures of cisheteropatriarchal racial capitalist society.”

In essence, Chauvin – sacrificed on the altar of economic and racial “justice” to appease BLM-inflamed mobs – will remain the victim not of a heckler’s but a hooligans’ veto.

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