Careful legal analysis on the Chauvin trial by @JeannieSGersen. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-simple-facts-of-derek-chauvins-trial

“The defense’s best possibility of avoiding conviction is to introduce doubt about the cause of death—in particular, about whether Floyd would have died had he not had drugs in his system,” @JeannieSGersen writes. http://nyer.cm/xs38R6R

Helpful legal analysis from @JeannieSGersen, who always begins her criminal law classes with a deceptively simple case: "A police officer shot and seriously injured a man who resisted arrest for a misdemeanor of illegal fishing." https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-simple-facts-of-derek-chauvins-trial