{"id":200319,"date":"2021-05-12T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/12\/i-feel-very-good-about-this\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:06:00","slug":"i-feel-very-good-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/12\/i-feel-very-good-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Very Good About This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill has ruled that Derek Chauvin is eligible for a sentence enhancement for up to 40 years in prison<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He used the terms, “Particular cruelty,” and “Abused a position of trust and authority,” as a cop to justify taking a potential sentence for 2nd degree murder from about 12 years.<\/p>\n

Good.  This psychopath is a menace to society:<\/p>\n

Derek Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he pressed his knee into George Floyd\u2019s neck until he went limp and treated him with \u201cparticular cruelty,\u201d qualifying him for a longer prison sentence, a judge said.<\/p>\n

In a ruling made public Wednesday, Hennepin County District Judge Peter A. Cahill found state prosecutors had proved beyond a reasonable doubt four of five aggravating factors in Floyd\u2019s killing that they argued should result in a tougher prison sentence for the former Minneapolis police officer.<\/p>\n

Chauvin was convicted April 20 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd\u2019s May 25 killing. Floyd died when Chauvin placed his knees on Floyd\u2019s neck and back for more than nine minutes while he was handcuffed, facedown, on a Minneapolis street. Chauvin, who is being held in solitary confinement at a Minnesota prison, is scheduled to be sentenced June 25.<\/p>\n

Although a jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges he was facing, Minnesota law dictates he will face sentencing only on the most serious charge: second-degree murder. State sentencing guidelines on that charge recommend 11 to 12 years in prison for someone with no criminal history.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors last fall and again last month asked Cahill for what is known as an \u201cupward sentencing departure,\u201d citing several factors they argued should open Chauvin up to a maximum of 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, Cahill agreed with prosecutors that Chauvin had \u201cabused a position of trust and authority\u201d as a police officer and that Chauvin \u201cknew from his training and experience\u201d that his restraint was putting Floyd in \u201cdanger of positional asphyxia.\u201d
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The scary part is that without a video that had gone viral, Derek Chauvin would still be a cop, and he would still be brutalizing people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill has ruled that Derek Chauvin is eligible for a sentence enhancement for up to 40 years in prison.  He used the terms, “Particular cruelty,” and “Abused a position of trust and authority,” as a cop to justify taking a potential sentence for 2nd degree murder from about 12 years. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}