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Back now to the chauvin’s sentencing former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin sentenced to 22 and a half years behind bars in the murder of george floyd today nbc 10 legal analyst Enrique L1 Latoison is joining us now to help us understand the sentencing enrique thanks for being here prosecutors we know recommended 30 years for shovin so what factors do you think influenced the judge’s decision to land on 22 and a half years so the prosecutors asked for 30 the family asked for 40 and his attorney asked for probation so his guidelines were around 12 and a half to 15 years however about a month or so ago they had a hearing the judge determined that there were aggravating circumstances that could push it past the 15 years so he went to 22 and a half now the judge was careful to say that he’s not paying attention to any outside influences that he’s not going to be swayed by what’s going on he understands how big this case is but he still had to take in the case of the this person here has a zero prior record score has never been in trouble before his defense did put on mitigating circumstances and of course the prosecution put on aggravated circumstances and he fell with 22 and a half and with good time he’s looking at about 15 years before he’s eligible for parole we know before the sentencing various people were allowed to make statements before the judge handed down that sentence derek chovin among them he finally addressed the floyd family with hearing him for the first time in case people didn’t hear it here’s again what he had to say it was not long i do want to give my condolences to the floyd family there’s going to be some other information in the future that would be of interest and i hope things will give you some some peace of mind so enrique what was chovin likely referring to that would prevent him from saying more in that statement in court today well he’s currently under federal indictment for two other cases one with george floyd’s case along with a different case so he has to kind of be careful about what he says because it could still be used against him in federal court because he’s going to be still facing another trial however i was a little surprised that he hadn’t prepared a statement it seems though he was just kind of winging it and that cryptic statement kind of was confusing i didn’t understand what he was getting at by that and so the general rule is if you’re not going to say something that’s going to help you or give sympathy with the judge or take accountability you’re better off just saying judge you know i have nothing to say i’m still under you know other legal issues and this time i have nothing to say an appeal is expected so what grounds do you think his lawyers will turn to to make that appeal well we all remember the o.j simpson trial and that trial those drawers were sequestered and they were taken out of the area even with the bill cosby trial they were sequestered so they asked for this case for them to be sequestered the jury was not sequestered and it was not moved out of the area this was a huge issue for the defense that continued to bring this up throughout the trial every time there was something public that went on the defense would stand up and ask for a mistrial because they believed that the jury to be influenced from all those outside pressures so that will be big in forefront on what they will be appealing to say that they believe the jury was unduly influenced in this case and coming back with a guilty verdict enrique l1 latoison and thanks so much for joining us tonight seven we appreciate it

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