Biased Jury

Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump a defense as an earlier verdict in a separate trial in May 2023 found that Trump sexually abused Carroll. The first jury awarded Carroll $5 million. This second case was a damages-only case that resulted in a $83.3 million award.

Chauvin asserts that the jury in his case was biased. There was concern that the protests at the courthouse would become riots unless he was found guilty. Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for protesters to get violent when she said they should 'get more confrontational' if there was no guilty verdict.

Michael Sussman was found 'not guilty' of lying to the FBI when he told them he was not representing any client when he gave the FBI now-discredited information in 2016 linking then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia. But Sussman was, in fact, representing the Hillary Clinton campaign.