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The Death of George Floyd Murder Trial, Pt 8: Defense’s Case

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

After weeks of testimony from the prosecution it’s now time for Derek Chauvin’s lawyer to present the defense’s case. Will a different point of view on police use of force and forensic science be enough to sway the jury? Will testimony from one of the people who was with George Floyd that afternoon have an impact? Host Vinnie Politan and Court TV’s Michael Ayala will break it all down. Plus Vinnie will explain the “Poltian Theorem” – his method for calculating how long the jury may deliberate after closing arguments end. Watch the trial daily from gavel to gavel on CourtTV and CourtTV.comand tune in to see Vinnie Politan and the entire Court TV team review each day’s testimony on Closing Arguments weeknights from 8pm to 11pm. To see Derek Chauvin invoke his 5th Amendment rights, click here. For more of what to expect in closing arguments, click here.

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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

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Opinions, all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

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Sensitive topics are discussed.

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Discretion is advised.

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On this week's court TV podcast, after two weeks of testimony from the prosecution,

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the defense got their opportunity to present their case

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court TV's Michael Ayala is back with me to discuss their strategy and whether or not

0:28.8

it worked this is the court TV podcast with Vinny Polytan.

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I'm Vinny Polytan.

0:39.0

Thank you so much for downloading the Court TV Podcast

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and we are at the end of all the evidence in the case

0:46.5

against Derek Chauvin the prosecution has put in their evidence and rested

0:50.7

and the defense has put in their evidence and rested, but we haven't had an opportunity to go through this defense case yet here on the podcast because the defense case moves so quickly.

1:01.0

I mean it was fast, lightning fast, and a lot of times defense case

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and sometimes defense cases are fast sometimes there's no case but they clearly had some

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issues and points they wanted to make but did they do a good job did they make their point

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let's bring in core TV anchor Michael Iala my friend my colleague

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All right let's start here Michael overall, overall, do you think the

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defense was able to do what they could do with the hand that they were dealt.

1:35.0

Did they leave anything out that they should have done here?

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I think they did an incredible job with the facts that they were dealt.

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This is a difficult, difficult case. I cannot stress that enough.

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