The attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former police officer of Minneapolis charged for the death of George Floyd, has requested for a delay and relocation of the trial, pointing to concerns about the impact of the settlement the city had reached with Floyd’s family.
“I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday related to the civil settlement,” the defense lawyer Eric Nelson told the judge on Monday, according to The Hill. “The fact that this came in the exact middle of jury selection is perplexing to me, your honor.”
