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and Maxine Waters pushes violence in the streets as Democrats defend her.

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The jury is out. The jury was issued closing statements by the prosecution and by the defense. Then there was a prosecution rebuttal yesterday. And then the jury were sequestered. Now, they should have been sequestered all along. The fact that they weren't sequestered is a real problem, because it turns out that this is the most publicized, high profile criminal trial in the United

States, probably since O.J. Simpson. This thing has taken up enormous sums of time and energy.

It's created protests and riots in the street for the last year. And now, only now, did the judge decide

it was time to sequester the jury? And that was only after everyone on the jury knows the base

and gross truth here, which is that if they don't convict, then their name is going to be on the

front page of a paper, probably two weeks from now, and then their life will be ruined.

If you are on that jury, I have a lot of sympathy for you, frankly, because it takes an enormous amount of bravery to simply look at the evidence and the facts in the case and come to a logical conclusion. And there are a couple of logical conclusions here. I can certainly see a conviction of Derek Chauvin for manslaughter. I think it's almost impossible not to see reasonable doubt

when it comes to the second and third degree murder charges.

Manslaughter is a lower standard because it suggests reckless disregard for the life of another.

And so you can make the case that even if Chauvin originally wasn't doing anything particularly bad,

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