{"id":12210,"date":"2023-11-21T01:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2023-11-21T01:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:59:36","slug":"scotus-denies-reviewing-police-officers-appeal-who-murdered-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/scotus-denies-reviewing-police-officers-appeal-who-murdered-george-floyd\/12210\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS denies reviewing police officer\u2019s appeal who murdered George Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request to review former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s conviction for murdering George Floyd in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision means that the district court\u2019s conviction and Chauvin\u2019s prison sentence of over 22 years will stand.<\/p>\n<p>The former police officer\u2019s lawyers has argued that he was denied a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and public safety concerns in the event of an acquittal, as reported by AP.<\/p>\n<p>For the unversed, footage of Chauvin kneeling over Floyd\u2019s neck for straight nine minutes while he pleaded that he couldn\u2019t breathe sparked global protests.<\/p>\n<p>Chauvin is seeking to overturn his federal civil rights convictions stemming from Floyd\u2019s murder, added the report. He pleaded guilty to two charges of violating the civil rights of Floyd and a 14-year-old during a separate arrest in 2017, by using excessive force in each encounter.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the federal convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request to review former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s conviction for murdering George\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":12211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3590,3591],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chauvin-trial","tag-george-floyd"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}