President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice stepped in this week to try to stop former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin‘s legal team from an appeal effort.
As highlighted by The Daily Wire, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson on Monday approved the examination of George Floyd’s heart tissue and bodily fluids, paving a way for an appeal from Chauvin, who was found guilty in the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning Floyd’s death.
Now, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota are trying to reverse that ruling, Fox News reported. In a motion filed Tuesday, the state is arguing that Chauvin has “no legal basis for [his] discovery requests, all of which stem solely from an email he received from an unvetted doctor offering a weaker version of the medical defense than the version that the jury had previously rejected…
