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COMMENTARY: Experts Explain Why Derek Chauvin Could Walk Despite Damning Testimony, Evidence

Recent data made public by a Bowling Green State University criminologist revealed that police officers who are charged with committing murder or manslaughter are more likely to win an acquittal – if they are prosecuted at all.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “On a daily basis, police officers are prosecution witnesses in nearly every criminal case. Prosecutors and police rely upon and collaborate,” April Preyar, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney in Chicago, told NNPA Newswire. “Prosecutors are reluctant to try to secure a conviction against someone who has essentially been their partner in the criminal courts. Further, prosecutors know what judges and jurors alike favor cops,” Preyar observed.

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