A judge will decide Chauvin’s sentence and could issue a longer sentence than state guidelines allow, due to four aggravating factors including what the judge said was Chauvin’s “cruelty” towards Floyd and Chauvin’s involvement with three other individuals.
The defense had argued that pretrial coverage influenced the jury pool and that the trial should not have been held in Minnneapolis.
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