Attorneys for J. Kueng and Tou Thao said Tuesday that their clients would be unfairly prejudiced if they went to trial alongside Derek Chauvin, who was convicted on state murder charges for killing George Floyd.
Darnella Frazier received a citation and special award from the Pulitzer Prize board after bringing the murder of George Floyd to the nation's attention.
"No sentence can undo Mr. Floyd's death, and no sentence can undo the trauma Defendant's actions have inflicted. But the sentence the Court imposes must show that no one is above the law, and no one is below it," prosecutors wrote in court documents urging a lengthy sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Judge Peter Cahill found that Derek Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer when he restrained Floyd last year and that he treated Floyd with particular cruelty.
A federal grand jury's three-count indictment unsealed Friday accused Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao of willfully violating Geroge Floyd's constitutional rights.
A juror who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer in the murder of George Floyd had participated in a march in Washington, D.C., months before the trial.
