So, now that Derek Chauvin has been found guilty by the jury of murdering George Floyd,

let's talk about how sentencing works and what the likely sentence for Derek Chauvin

might be.

Because justice matters.

Hey all, Glenn Kirschner here.

So with the Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts in, we now turn our attention to sentencing.

And over the past 24 hours, I've gotten a series of questions on Twitter and elsewhere.

And I want to try to take on three of those questions in this short video today.

First of all, people have asked, how is it that there are three homicide charges that

Derek Chauvin was convicted of, but only one killing?

So your criminal conduct, one incident, can violate multiple statutes or multiple laws.

Let me give you an example.

If I walk up to somebody and I punch them and I take their wallet, one incident.

But I've committed multiple crimes because when I punch somebody, I've committed an assault.

When I take their wallet, I've committed a theft.

And I've also committed a robbery because a robbery is defined as taking the property

from the possession of a person by force or violence.

So punching someone and taking their wallet qualifies as a robbery.

One incident, three charges, assault, theft, robbery.

Let's put that in the homicide context.

Let's assume I commit a burglary.

What is a burglary?

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