Murder of George Floyd
On April 20, 2021, a jury found Chauvin guilty of three crimes: second-degree unintentional murder of someone while committing a big crime, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.  The jurors had talked to each other for ten hours in two pieces, on Monday and Tuesday.  The judge is scheduled to give him his sentence eight weeks later.  The largest penalty the judge could give Chauvin is 40 years in prison  but most people who commit these crimes spend 10-15 years in prison. That means the jury decided that Chauvin might not have meant to kill Floyd but did mean to assault him and that Chauvin knew that he was doing something dangerous that could kill Floyd.