明尼苏达州上诉法院正在决定是否恢复对德里克·肖万的三级谋杀指控，德里克·是前明尼阿波利斯警官，将于下周在美国出庭受审乔治·弗洛伊德之死。
在周一的虚拟听证会上，明尼苏达州司法部长基思·埃里森办公室的一名检察官辩称，负责肖万案件的地区法院法官撤销了指控，从而“滥用了他的自由裁量权”。
肖万没有出席周一的听证会，他目前面临二级谋杀和二级过失杀人的指控，罪名是5月25日46岁的黑人弗洛伊德死亡。
“我们会的...上诉法官米歇尔·拉金在听证会结束时说:“考虑到这件事的审判应该从今天起一周内开始，尽快做出快速决定。”。
44岁的肖万正与其他三名与弗洛伊德之死有关的前警官分开受审。j .亚历山大·库恩(J. Alexander Kueng)、托马斯·莱恩(Thomas Lane)和图索(Tou Thao)被控协助和教唆二级谋杀和过失杀人，定于8月受审。
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手机视频显示，肖万用膝盖在弗洛伊德的脖子后面挖了很长一段时间，库恩和莱恩以俯卧的姿势按住这个戴着手铐的男人，他反复喊道:“我不能呼吸了。”
涛被指控袖手旁观，阻止证人作证。
弗洛伊德在事件中失去知觉，后来在医院被宣布死亡。
亨内平县地方法院法官彼得·卡希尔(Peter Cahill)正在主持肖万的案件，他在去年10月驳回了三级谋杀指控，裁定需要证据证明肖万涉嫌的行为危及多人并导致死亡。卡希尔裁定，由于肖万被指控只针对弗洛伊德，该罪名不适用于他的案件。
在周一的听证会上，检察官尼尔·卡蒂亚尔引用了明尼苏达州上诉法院2月1日的一项裁决，该裁决维持了对三级谋杀罪的定罪前明尼阿波利斯警官穆罕默德·努尔2017年，贾丝汀·罗斯兹克·达蒙德打911报警称在她家附近发生了一起袭击事件，随后被枪杀。
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民权律师本·克伦普办公室公布了一张未注明日期的照片，照片上是乔治·弗洛伊德。
在上诉法院对努尔案件做出裁决后，检察官要求卡西尔重新考虑对肖万的三级指控。卡西尔拒绝了这一请求。
肖万的律师埃里克·尼尔森(Eric Nelson)周一辩称，卡希尔的裁决应该有效，因为上诉法院在努尔案件中的裁决不应被视为具有法律约束力的先例，因为努尔有60至90天的时间向州最高法院上诉。
纳尔逊认为，如果肖万被判犯有三级谋杀罪，努尔案被推翻，他可以上诉，“但他必须在牢房里进行上诉。”
拉金回答说，“当最高法院批准对我们的案件进行复审时，它通常不会撤销我们的决定或发布任何限制该决定的命令。”
拉金告诉纳尔逊:“所有这些规则，以及缺乏先例性意见在先例性权威方面绝不是立即有效的声明，导致我质疑你的说法，即这些规则支持无视本法院的先例性决定，直到寻求复审的时间到期，最高法院拒绝复审，或者最高法院进行复审并发布不同的决定。”
卡蒂亚尔说，最高法院可能需要长达一年的时间来审查一个案件。他指出，还有另外三名前官员被指控与弗洛伊德的死亡有关，他们的审判“很可能在努尔结束并保持完整时”进行。
“这将意味着三级谋杀指控可能会对这三名官员提出，只是因为时间，”卡蒂亚尔说。“我们法律体系的一切都与这一理念相悖...在明尼苏达州和任何我们熟悉的司法管辖区。”
Court mulling whether to reinstate 3rd-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin in George Floyd's death
The Minnesota Court of Appeals is deciding whether to reinstate a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer set to go on trial next week in thedeath of George Floyd.
During a virtual hearing on Monday, a prosecutor from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office argued that the district court judge presiding over Chauvin's case "abused his discretion" by dropping the charge.
Chauvin, who did not attend Monday's hearing, is currently facing charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 25 death of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man.
"We will ... issue an expedited decision as soon as possible, appreciating that the trial in this matter is supposed to start one week from today," Appellate Judge Michelle A. Larkin said at the close of the hearing.
Chauvin, 44, is being tried separately from three other former officers involved in Floyd's death. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter and are scheduled to go on trial in August.
Cellphone video showed Chauvin digging his knee into the back of Floyd's neck for a prolonged period as Kueng and Lane held the handcuffed man down in a prone position as he repeatedly cried out, "I can't breathe."
Thao is accused of standing by and keeping witnesses at bay.
Floyd went unconscious during the incident and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding over Chauvin's case, dismissed the third-degree murder charge in October last year, ruling that it required evidence that Chauvin's alleged actions put multiple people at risk and resulted in a death. Cahill ruled that since Chauvin is accused of only targeting Floyd, the count did not apply to his case.
During Monday's hearing, prosecutor Neal Katyal cited a Feb. 1 ruling by the Minnesota Court of Appeals upholding a third-degree murder conviction againstformer Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noorin the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond after she called 911 to report an assault in progress near her home.
Following the Court of Appeals ruling in Noor's case, prosecutors asked Cahill to reconsider the third-degree charge against Chauvin. Cahill denied the request.
Chauvin's lawyer Eric Nelson argued on Monday that Cahill's ruling should stand because the Appeals Court decision in Noor's case should not be considered a legally binding precedent because Noor has 60 to 90 days to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Nelson argued that if Chauvin were convicted of third-degree murder and the Noor case was overturned, he could appeal, "but he would have to do it from the confines of a prison cell."
Larkin responded, "When the Supreme Court does grant review of our cases, it typically does not vacate our decision or issue any order limiting that decision."
"All of these rules and the lack of any statement that a precedential opinion is anything but immediately effective in terms of precedential authority are causing me to question your assertion that the rules support ignoring precedential decisions of this court until such time as to seek review has expired, the Supreme Court denies review or the Supreme Court takes review and issues a different decision," Larkin told Nelson.
Katyal said that it could take the Supreme Court up to a year to review a case. He noted that there are three other former officers charged in the death of Floyd and their trial could occur "very possibly when Noor is over and left intact."
"That would mean third-degree murder charges could be brought against those three officers just because of timing," Katyal said. "Everything about our legal system rebels against that notion ... in Minnesota and any jurisdiction with which we're familiar."
