前明尼阿波利斯警察德里克·肖万谋杀案陪审团的选择乔治·弗洛伊德之死尽管检察官要求明尼苏达州上诉法院停止高调的审判。

在花了一天时间询问了十几名潜在的陪审员后，该案的律师让陪审团的前三名成员就座。他们是一家环境检测公司的化学家，该公司与一位理疗师订婚;一名妇女说她“超级兴奋”成为陪审员，与明尼苏达州北部的一名警官有亲戚关系;一名财务审计员说，他对肖万的印象“有些负面”，主要是因为弗洛伊德的死，但他可以搁置自己的意见，只根据法庭上提供的证据做出判决。

当地时间下午4:30左右，第三名陪审员就座后，选拔过程结束。

在肖万的律师埃里克·尼尔森的宣誓下，第一位陪审员说他从未见过肖万跪在弗洛伊德脖子后面超过九分钟的视频。

当地时间上午9点刚过，第一批潜在的陪审员被带进法庭，肖万的检察官和律师各自做了自我介绍。

亨内平县地方法院法官彼得·卡希尔说，他打算继续陪审团的选择过程，直到上诉法院告诉他相反的情况。

肖万的律师向州最高法院提出上诉，此前上诉法院周五发布裁决，指示卡西尔恢复对肖万的三级谋杀指控，此前他发现法官在10月份驳回指控时犯了错误。

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州最高法院周二上午发布命令，承认收到了肖万律师的请愿书，并要求检察官在当地时间周二下午5点之前做出回应。

周一，州司法部长基思·埃里森(Keith Ellison)办公室的检察官也提出了一项动议，要求上诉法院暂停审判，称卡西尔对该案没有完全管辖权，而是否纳入三级谋杀指控的决定仍未做出。

卡希尔星期二在陪审团的开场白中说，肖万对二级谋杀和二级过失杀人的指控拒不认罪，但他补充说，随着案件的进行，“指控可能会增加或减少”。

律师们正在为此案挑选16名陪审员，包括4名候补陪审员。

在陪审团选择开始之前，案件双方的律师都以正当理由解雇了前50名潜在陪审员中的16名，主要是因为他们在一份冗长的问卷中提交了答案。

周二接受质询的12名潜在陪审员中，有9人被解职。一名潜在的陪审员被解雇了，她是三个孩子的已婚母亲和一名来自墨西哥的移民，从事护理助理工作。由于语言障碍，纳尔逊行使了强制质疑权，解除了陪审员的职务。尼尔森还询问了这位女士为什么想加入肖万陪审团，她在回答中写道，“我想就弗洛伊德先生的不公正死亡发表我的意见。”

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一名示威者在亨内平县政府中心外举着乔治·弗洛伊德的肖像

另一名被驳回的女性表示，她已经对肖万的有罪或无罪形成了看法，无论她在审判期间听到什么证据，她都不相信这种看法会改变。一位企业经理也被解雇了，他在调查问卷中回答说，他“非常同意”警察在做出瞬息间的决定时不应该被秋后算账。一名19岁的贸易学校学生说，他的父亲曾经在明尼阿波利斯的一个交通站被警察描述为种族主义者，他被解雇了，因为他说仅仅被要求履行陪审团职责“让我很焦虑”。

纳尔逊利用另一个先发制人的挑战解雇了一名西班牙裔男子，这名男子最近从南加州搬到明尼阿波利斯，并有练习武术的经验。

检察官史蒂夫·施莱歇尔(Steve Schleicher)对纳尔逊的举动提出质疑，他告诉卡西尔，辩方“对陪审团中的第二个人”提出了强制性的挑战。

“当被告被要求为行使强制权提供一个种族中立的解释时...施莱歇尔说:“这位特定观点的陪审员表达了强烈的意见，表达了一种普遍的担忧，即他只是想加入陪审团。

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纳尔逊反驳说，陪审员说他练习巴西柔术，并形成了一种强烈的观点，认为肖万对弗洛伊德采取了“非法策略”，肖万和其他参与逮捕的官员“自行执法”

“是的，这位陪审员表示他愿意重新审查这些意见，但只有在本质上向他提供与他的意见相反的证据和证明时，我才理解他这样说，”纳尔逊说。"他声称愿意重新审查证据，这让我觉得他言不由衷。"

卡希尔站在纳尔逊一边，说在预审期间，他意识到辩护可能会打击潜在的陪审员。

卡西尔说:“这不是因为他的种族，而是因为当他谈到他的柔术经验和持球经验时，他显然可能会坚持自己的观点，认为自己本质上是陪审团室的专家。”“但更重要的是，他以一种方式表示，他将坚持自己的观点，直到别人告诉他其他情况或提供其他证据，这本质上是将负担转移到辩方身上，而不是假设无罪。”

3rd juror selected in Derek Chauvin case, despite prosecutors asking trial be halted

Jury selection in the murder case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in thedeath of George Floydbegan on Tuesday despite prosecutors asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to halt the high-profile trial.

After spending the day questioning a dozen potential jurors, lawyers in the case seated the first three members of the panel. They are a chemist for an environmental testing company who is engaged to be married to a physical therapist; a woman who said she was "super excited" to be a juror and is related to a northern Minnesota police officer; and a financial auditor who said he's formed a "somewhat negative" impression of Chauvin due primarily to the death of Floyd but that he could set his opinions aside to render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented in court.

The selection process ended for the day at about 4:30 p.m. local time after the third juror was seated.

While being questioned under oath by Chauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson, the first juror said he has never seen the viral video of Chauvin kneeling on the back of Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.

The first pool of potential jurors were brought into the courtroom just after 9 a.m. local time and prosecutors and attorneys for Chauvin each introduced themselves.

Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill said he intends to keep the jury selection process going until the appellate court tells him otherwise.

Chauvin's lawyers filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court after the appellate court issued a ruling on Friday instructing Cahill to reinstate a third-degree murder charge against Chauvin after finding that the judge erred in October when he dismissed the count.

The state Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday morning acknowledging it had received the petition from Chauvin's lawyer and giving prosecutors until 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday to file a response.

Prosecutors from the office of state Attorney General Keith Ellison also filed a motion on Monday asking the appellate court to stay the trial, arguing that Cahill does not have total jurisdiction over the case while a decision over whether to include the third-degree murder charge remains pending.

In opening remarks to the jury pool Tuesday, Cahill said Chauvin has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, but added "charges might be added or subtracted" as the case goes on.

The attorneys are looking to select 16 jurors for the case, including four alternates.

Before jury selection began, lawyers on both sides of the case dismissed 16 of the first 50 prospective jurors for cause, mostly due to the answers they submitted on a lengthy questionnaire.

Nine of the 12 potential jurors questioned on Tuesday were dismissed. One of the potential jurors let go was a married mother of three and an immigrant from Mexico who works as a nursing assistant. Nelson exercised a peremptory challenge to dismiss the juror due to a language barrier. Nelson had also grilled the woman on her answer to why she would want to serve on the Chauvin jury, in which she wrote, "I would like to give my opinion on the unjust death of Mr. Floyd."

Another woman dismissed said she had formed an opinion on the guilt or innocence of Chauvin and did not believe it would change regardless of what evidence she heard during the trial. Also dismissed was a business manager, who on his questionnaire answered that he "strongly agreed" that police officers should not be second guessed on making split-second decisions. A 19-year-old trade-school student, who said he's father once racially profiled in a traffic stop by Minneapolis police, was dismissed after he said just being called for jury duty is "making me anxious."

Nelson used another preemptory challenge to dismiss a Hispanic man who recently moved to Minneapolis from Southern California and had experience practicing martial arts.

Prosecutor Steve Schleicher challenged Nelson's move, telling Cahill the defense had made a peremptory challenge "on its second person of color in a jury pool."

"When asked to provide a race-neutral explanation for the exercise of the peremptory, the defense ... articulated just sort of generalized concerns that this particular perspective juror expressed strong opinions and articulated a belief that he was simply trying to get on the jury," Schleicher said.

Pushing back, Nelson responded that the juror said he practiced Brazilian jiu-jitsu and had formed a strong opinion that Chauvin had performed an "illegal tactic" on Floyd and that Chauvin and the other officers involved in the arrest had "taken the law into their own hands."

"Yes, this juror indicated that he was willing to reexamine those opinions, but only upon essentially providing him evidence and proof contrary to his opinions is the way I understood him to say that," Nelson said. "His statements that he would be willing to reexamine the evidence struck me as insincere."

Cahill sided with Nelson, saying that during voir dire questioning he realized the defense would probably strike the prospective juror.

"That reason was not because of his race but because when he was talking about his jiu-jitsu experience and his experience with the hold is that he obviously might stick to his own opinions about being essentially an expert in the jury room," Cahill said. "But, more importantly, he stated in a way that he was going to stick to his opinion until somebody else told him otherwise or provided proof otherwise, which essentially is shifting the burden onto the defense and not coming in with the presumption of innocence."