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Slack.com slash DHQ. If you tune into the Derek Chauvin trial, and it's hard to avoid these

days, with Gavold a Gavold coverage online and daily recaps pushed to your phone, one of

the things you'll notice is just how many people there are, at least representing the prosecution.

What's interesting here is that the prosecution team, I think you can call it robust.

John Collins is covering the trial for Minnesota Public Radio.

The Minnesota Attorney General is spearheading this prosecution. Not only do they have Keith

Olson's team, but they have the team at the Hennepin County Attorney who typically would

be the ones who prosecute district court case like this. They have all these pro bono

attorneys who are just volunteering their time, including Neil Katjall.

More solicitor general. Sure. Yeah. And well known for arguing many cases in front of

the US Supreme Court. The prosecution's opening statement was delivered

not by a government lawyer, but a local civil rights attorney, the founder of the Minnesota

Association of Black Lawyers. And something that surprises John is that it isn't just

the lawyers who are working for free. When lawyers call an expert witness, they're paid.

They're paid, you know, it could be up $12,000 even more.

So significant amounts of money. Yeah. And it's actually the first time I've seen expert

witnesses who testified who are being paid nothing. Huh. They're just volunteering their

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