Jury selection in the Derek Chauvin trial is delayed until at least Tuesday, as the prosecution asks the Minnesota Court of Appeals for a stay.
The prosecution argued that jury selection should halt while the defense asks the state Supreme Court to review a ruling regarding the third-degree murder charge.
The trial of former police agent #DerekChauvin, accused of murdering #GeorgeFloyd, begins this Monday. The court proceedings begin with jury selection.
America is bracing for the opening of what will be one of the nation's most closely watched trials in years -- that of the white policeman charged with killing George Floyd, a Black man whose dying struggles were captured on a video seen around the world.
Derek Chauvin -- the now-former city officer who used his knee to pin a pleading, gasping Floyd by the neck to the pavement for nearly nine minutes -- faces second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the Hennepin County district court.
