Trial

Michael Avenatti's lawyers told a judge on Wednesday they felt six months behind bars would be a sufficient sentence after his "epic fall" led to public ridicule.

"We refused to try a case with lawyers who don't have the appropriate level of experience and skill because that is not in the client's best interest," Greenberg told Newsweek.

Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed on February 23, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia, as he ran through the neighborhood of two white defendants who said they chased and shot him, believing he was a nearby burglary suspect.

'19 Kids and Counting' star Josh Duggar's arrest on child pornography charges came days after his wife announced they were expecting their seventh child and follows a slew of controversies.

Scott Peterson was convicted of the murders of his wife and unborn son following a case that captured the nation's interest in 2004.

U.S. adults who disagreed with the verdict were overwhelmingly white, conservative and male.

The correct constitutional approach is to permit protests while insulating the jury from them.

In response to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, the football team tweeted, "I CAN BREATHE 4-20-21."

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren asked whether it was safe to go outside following the verdict.

Black people accounted for 18.7 percent of police killings since May 25, 2020.

Critics say Biden's comments will prevent former police officer Derek Chauvin from receiving a fair trial, while the White House said the president waited until the jury was sequestered.

"It's borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person," Dershowitz said.

The company said it hoped these plans would help "limit content that could lead to civil unrest or violence."

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating after the closing arguments, which will start at 9 a.m. local time Monday.

Potter was placed on administrative leave and later resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department after shooting Wright.

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Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified on Monday that Chauvin kneeling on Floyd may have been reasonable at first but went on for far too long.

Omar said the Minneapolis community is on "edge" that Chauvin may be found not guilty by the jury.

"It is unfathomable to me that you felt it appropriate to force my child to watch George Floyd's murder on television in your classroom," the Cedar Hill High School parents' letter to administrators read.

"First of all, pulling him down to the ground face down and putting your knee on the neck for that amount of time is just uncalled for," the top-ranking police officer in the department's homicide unit testified on Friday.

"When Mr. Floyd was no longer offering up any resistance to the officers, they could have ended their restraint," Sergeant David Ploger said in court.

The paramedic said that three police officers were on top of Floyd as the EMT team checked for a pulse.

Chauvin's trial is dangling justice in front of a group of people starving for it. And it comes at the cost of our mental health.

"If I would have just not taken the bill this could have been avoided," 19-year-old Christopher Martin testified on Wednesday.

A 17-year-old witness told a jury that Chauvin "started shaking" his Mace at the crowd that formed.

Protesters in Minneapolis left a coffin outside the courthouse where former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is being tried in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd.

Donald Williams, a mixed martial arts fighter, got emotional while listening to the 911 call he made after Floyd was taken away in an ambulance.

"We will see the same old racist defense for police violence: the big, bad Black man who resisted arrest and caused his own death," the author said about comments made by Chauvin's attorney Eric Nelson in his opening statement.

Derek Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee into George Floyd's neck for around 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

"It's an excruciatingly long time. Much longer than you think," Don Lemon said in a segment of his CNN show following the first day of the former Minneapolis police officer's trial.