Briefly,
1. Government witnesses perturbed themselves about restraint method not being an approved MPD method.
2. Expert medical witnesses included doctors who never examined the deceased.
3. Expert medical witnesses who could have presented other explanations of St. Floyd's death were not allowed to testify.
In one sense, it really does not matter if Chauvin caused St. Floyd's death. St. Floyd was a member of a designated victim group; Chauvin was white; there was video that looked bad. The whole proof beyond a reasonable doubt idea therefore does not apply.
Let me guess. The Expert Witnesses prepared to testify as to point 3 were excluded in spite of them being Medical Examiners and Physicians because their testimony would have only been cumulative when added to the Junior EMT on the scene and his opinion as to what killed St. Floyd, in spite of the fact that they had more experience in medicine than the Junior EMT had been alive at the time, and their post residency continuing medical education totaled more hours than the Junior EMT's total education, including preschool and toilet training.
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