By Bry'onna Mention ·Updated April 27, 2022
Attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have filed a court appeal to overturn his conviction in the 2020 killing of George Floyd on Monday. The 72-page court filing claims that the proceedings were so riddled with “error, misconduct and prejudice that they were structurally defective.”
In April 2021 after a three week-long trial and 10 hours deliberation over two days, Chauvin was found guilty in the