{"id":460751,"date":"2021-04-28T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460751"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:35:26","slug":"chauvin-trial-juror-speaks-publicly-dont-think-any-of-us-felt-pressured-to-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chauvin-trial-juror-speaks-publicly-dont-think-any-of-us-felt-pressured-to-convict\/","title":{"rendered":"Chauvin Trial Juror Speaks Publicly: \u2018Don\u2019t Think Any Of Us Felt\u2019 Pressured To Convict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchauvin-trial-juror-speaks-publicly-dont-think-any-of-us-felt-pressured-to-convict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2079.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A juror for the Derek Chauvin trial spoke out publicly Wednesday morning for the first time, telling \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmYArRsFlq4\">CBS This Morning<\/a>\u201d in an interview that he doesn\u2019t believe that he or any of the other jurors in the trial felt pressured to convict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDid you feel pressure, because you knew the world was watching, that you have to reach a guilty verdict here,\u201d CBS host Gayle King asked juror Brandon Mitchell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mitchell, known in court as juror number 52, said that that was \u201cnot at all the case,\u201d and that he didn\u2019t believe any of the other jurors felt pressure to reach a specific verdict either. \u201cThe pressure, moreso, came from just being in the room and being under stress,\u201d Mitchell added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cComing in each and every day and having to watch somebody die is stressful enough by itself, so anything outside of that was secondary, just because, as a human, it\u2019s natural to feel some kind of way as you\u2019re watching somebody in agony,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lisa Christensen, an alternate juror, has said publicly she was initially unsure whether she wanted to serve on the jury at all. <\/span><span>\u201cI did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict,\u201d Christensen told local outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/george-floyd\/derek-chauvin-trial-alternate-juror-lisa-christensen\/89-97b74eb1-c875-4ed5-93ad-5c72620b9f18\"><span>KARE 11<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Christensen\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ykeOP6Uf3EQ\"><span>ultimately said<\/span><\/a><span> that she felt Chauvin was \u201cguilty on some level.\u201d She noted that she doesn\u2019t know how she would have decided on specific charges because she didn\u2019t have enough time with the jury instructions before getting dismissed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mitchell told King that, once the jurors entered the deliberation room, all but one of them believed that Chauvin was guilty on the manslaughter charge \u2014 the least severe of the three charges against him \u2014 in a preliminary vote. And after 40 minutes of discussion, going over court-provided legal definitions, and talking about the evidence, the hold-out juror was convinced that Chauvin was guilty of manslaughter as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After King asked Mitchell, \u201cWhat was the one person unsure about Brandon,\u201d Mitchell responded: \u201cI think it was just the terminology. So within the instructions, you know, some of the terminology can be a little tricky because it\u2019s legal jargon. Sometimes some of the words can be interpreted differently amongst people, so they wanted to do their due diligence and make sure that they were coming out with the right verdict that they believed in. So they were just hung up on a few words, and we kind of went through the definitions that were given to us and kinda broke it down from different perspectives to get everyone on the same page.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty earlier this month of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. His sentencing is scheduled for June.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A juror for the Derek Chauvin trial spoke out publicly Wednesday morning for the first time, telling \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d in an interview that he doesn\u2019t believe that he or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276924,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2079.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chauvin Trial Juror Speaks Publicly: \u2018Don\u2019t Think Any Of Us Felt\u2019 Pressured To Convict","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2079.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chauvin Trial Juror Speaks Publicly: \u2018Don\u2019t Think Any Of Us Felt\u2019 Pressured To Convict","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}