Attorney Greg Joseph has filed a “Memorandum in support of petition for postconviction relief” on behalf of his client Derek Chauvin—the former Minneapolis police officer involved in the arrest and death of George Floyd.
In the 71-page petition filed in Hennepin County District Court, Joseph stated that “this case simply never made sense.” Among several key arguments, he pointed out how few murders “take place before a crowd of witnesses” while officers are working with dispatchers and requesting an ambulance and emergency response.
In speaking about the case for the first time since it was filed on Thursday, Nov. 20, Joseph also pointed out key facts—and raised questions about how video evidence was used during the trial. He also underscored the “potential for misuse” of video evidence and the “devastating effect” that false testimony can have in court and the judicial process.
The petition states that the case involved two key issues: intent and causation. That is, one, whether the restraint of Floyd followed policies and procedures of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD); and two, if the restraint caused his death.
With regard to intent and causation, Joseph stated in the petition that Chauvin’s conviction rested on these “two thin strands.”
In seeking to vacate Chauvin’s conviction, or obtain a new trial, the petition argues that Chauvin “was deprived of his right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article I of the Minnesota Constitution.”
In speaking about the prosecution—and what he believes was the false testimony of MPD Inspector Katie Blackwell, Chief Medaria Arradondo, and others during Chauvin’s trial—Joseph told Alpha News, “you can only run from the truth for so long.”
Joseph explained in the petition how the prosecution relied on “video and still frames” to tell “a single story.” But now, long after the “hysteria of the day,” the court and the rest of the world may finally be able to look at the facts and evidence “through a clear lens.”
The petition also references the lawsuit filed by Blackwell against Liz Collin, Dr. JC Chaix, Alpha News, and others.
Joseph’s petition cites the findings of Hennepin County Judge Wahl in that case.
Blackwell filed the lawsuit and claimed that she was defamed in Collin’s book, “They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd” and later in the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which Collin produced.
Collin wrote: “it doesn’t seem like Blackwell, Arradondo, Mercil, and other so-called expert witnesses were telling the truth … It seems more like they were lying by omission, if not lying outright.”
Judge Wahl found that despite Blackwell’s claim, she was not defamed, and that the statements that Collin wrote in her book were “substantially true.”
Joseph’s petition for Chauvin also references the 34 current and former MPD officers who provided sworn declarations about how the restraint that Chauvin used was in fact part of MPD training, to the contrary of Blackwell’s testimony during Chauvin’s trial. In addition to those 34 officers, Chauvin’s petition includes declarations from 23 additional officers who came forward.
Months ago, around the time of the five-year anniversary of the George Floyd riots, there was talk of a presidential pardon for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who along with three other officers was convicted of charges stemming from the death of George Floyd.
Chauvin has spent years in prison and a pardon would have been something to hope for. However, Chauvin’s attorney, Greg Joseph, has ignored the talk and remained focused on something else: getting him a fair, impartial trial.
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Joseph joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He explained how Chauvin’s trial “is obviously finished. His direct appeal is finished. So, they call it post-conviction relief in Minnesota.”
Joseph further explained to Collin that post-conviction relief “basically is a chance to litigate anything that may have been missed at either his trial level or on his appeal.”
“So this is really an opportunity for us to paint a picture, not only of, of what happened but also how it happened and why it happened. And this is a chance for us to make things right,” Joseph said.
Aside from some of the particulars of the Chauvin case, Joseph also pointed out that “the first thing people have to understand is that Derek is tough. Derek is a fighter and he knows something was wrong here—and something is wrong here.”
“Going through this case with him over the past few months, you know, he’s really gotten a clearer picture of what was done and it was unjust. It was unjust then and it’s unjust today that he’s sitting in prison as we speak,” Joseph said.
Nearly two years ago, just days after “The Fall of Minneapolis” documentary was released, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in a prison law library. Former FBI informant John Turskak has been charged with attempted murder for trying to kill Chauvin. However, according to records, he is no longer in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Alpha News has made repeated requests to ask why—but no explanation has been given.
During the interview, Collin also asked Joseph if the dismissed defamation lawsuit filed by Assistant Chief of Police Katie Blackwell against Collin, Alpha News, and others may play a role in Chauvin’s fight for post-conviction relief and a fair trial.
Joseph said, “Katie Blackwell wasn’t the only person who offered that particular testimony … when false testimony is offered at trial, it can absolutely have a bearing on our case and it will.”
In response to Blackwell’s defamation lawsuit, dozens of Minneapolis police officers signed court declarations stating that they were trained in the Maximal Restraint Technique (MRT).
Even if Chauvin’s conviction is tossed and is finally let go, I’m afraid someone on the left will seek him out and murder him.
If he were to get out, he’d be hounded like the January 6th defendants are and arrested for any minor infractions and persecuted.
They’ve done exactly that with Darren Wilson, the cop that killed rabid Michael Brown. He can’t get a job ANYWHERE. If he stays in one place, the Black Mafia spreads the word, and he has to move again.
Chauvin was sacrificed to the racist left to avoid further leftist political violence. That is the threat fascism presents. Chauvin was a dead man walking and everyone knew it. Floyd killed himself with his own drugs and everyone knew that, too. The left simply gets what it wants every time or they will burn down cities.
Not to mention the howling mob outside the courthouse intimidating the jurors.
When Chauvin is released those that pilloried him without just cause should be put on trail, and that includes EVERYBODY from the governor on down.
That is the God’s honest truth. The DFL machine is cram packed with the nastiest people you could ever imagine. A horrible, stinking herd of miserable, lying, pukefaced commie assRat scumbag varmint sphincters. They have infested Minnesota. I hate what these God-forsaken bastards have done to my home state.
Sloppy woman, shirt 2x sizes to big
Nobody wants to see her in a better fitting shirt.
It has been evident from the beginning that Derek Chauvin was sacrificed to mollify White-hating BIacks outraged that law enforcement dared enforce the law by ordinary means on one of their career criminals. During the arrest, the product of African culture in America, career criminal George Floyd died of a drug overdose and bad heart while resisting arrest.
Absolutely.
DEREK is not a murderer.
You can’t Murder someone who committed suicide.
PUNK FLOYD died from an OD he swallowed to hide the drugs. That and his BAD TICKER, along with resisting arrest, is what ended his pathetic BLECK life.
https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2025/11/23/it-is-time-for-the-derek-chavin-conviction-to-be-overturned-n4946310
Thanks Eric!
The trial of Derek Chauvin has been One of the most flagrant miscarriages of Justice in America. Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. Floyd died of an overdose of self induced fentanyl poisoning. Derek Chauvin was simply the wrong White police officer located in the wrong place at the wrong time to apprehend a habitual Black criminal in a city of anti-police sentiment.