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prosecutors leaked to the ''New York Times'' that Chauvin was supposedly prepared to plead guilty to a third-degree murder charge, and the newspaper published this confidential, unverified information a few weeks before the start of the jury trial, to
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the lack of persons free of any potential retaliation on the jury, such as retired or independently sufficient individuals
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in this trial about the physical effects of a wrestling-like confrontation between two men, 9 out of the 14 jurors (including alternates) were women, one of whom said afterwards that it was not believable when a defense witness said a man could lie comfor
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the denial by the court of a motion to sequester the jury amid protests during the trial, which meant that jurors had to try to go around protests in order to get home from the court.
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transfers to an impartial venue free of the pre-trial publicity is common in such a high-profile case, but the motion to transfer was denied in this case.
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