Gaertner said that as a prosecutor, “You don’t want the jury judging the victim, you want the jury judging the defendant.” Joy said the question seeks to weed out potential jurors who will "devalue his (Floyd's) life because he used drugs.”
EXPLAINER: What's behind some Chauvin jury questions?
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Peter Joy, a law professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said the effort to keep Hemme in prison is “a shock to the conscience of any decent human being,” noting that she’s already served 43 years for a crime that evidence strongly suggests she didn’t commit.
Three courts say a woman deemed wrongfully convicted of murder should be freed. She still isn't.
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