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https://www.fox9.com/news/chauvin-files-new-trial-conviction-george-floyd-murder-dec-3

> Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is asking for a new trial after being convicted of second-degree unintentional murder for the death of George Floyd.

>The court filing also requests an evidentiary hearing to address what he says is trial misconduct, which led to the violation of his right to due process.

>Chauvin also claims the jury instructions misstate the law.

> Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of second-degree unintentional murder for the death of George Floyd, has filed an appeal asking for a new trial.

The filing was submitted on Nov. 20, 2025.

The Minneapolis Court of Appeals previously denied an appeal for a new trial back in 2023.
> The filing states that Dr. Andrew Baker performed the autopsy on George Floyd the day after his death and determined that he died of "cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression" but did not find any evidence of injuries consistent with asphyxia.

>Four other physicians who reviewed Baker's medical investigation determined that Floyd died of asphyxia. However, Chauvin contends that their determinations relied on video evidence of Floyd being restrained by Minneapolis officers.

>The filing states that Chauvin retained a group of physicians at the Forensic Panel who will testify that the methodology used by the physicians who testified at trial "is not generally accepted in the scientific community."

> Chauvin also states that the three Minneapolis police supervisors swore on the stand that the tactic of placing a knee on a suspect's neck as a restraint tactic was not consistent with Minneapolis police policy.

However, the filing states that 34 current and former Minneapolis police officers have come forward with sworn statements to attest the knee-to-neck tactic was part of their training and consistent with the department policy.