Going through Derek Chauvin’s opening statement contradiction by contradiction
“I want to talk about reason and common sense and how that applies to the evidence that you’re about to see”
Going by the words of Attorney for Derek Chauvin, let’s go through his opening statement by using reason and common sense. Too often are attorneys allowed to avoid the consequences of their own words, so let’s go through and iron out some inconsistencies.
The ultimate test is brought forth.
“What would a reasonable person do.”
I’m not going to write that you guess about what a reasonable person would do. I’m not going to ask you what this attorney will ask of reasonable people. Only I’ll mention this. The crowd surrounding George Floyd while he was knelt on by Derek Chauvin knows what a reasonable person would do. They know exactly what a reasonable person would do because they watched the neck of a reasonable person between the pavement and an officer of the law’s knee.
“Common sense tells you that there are always two sides to a story.”
Mr. Nelson, the attorney for Derek Chauvin, may as well be asking the jury to convict his client with this statement. Of course, Mr. Nelson is correct. There are two sides to this story. In fact, there are more than two sides to the story.
