Trial by judge without a jury

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Judge Regina Chu decided to follow standard jury instructions on most issues, and rejected proposed jury instructions about Wright's actions during a traffic stop that led to his death at the hands of Officer Kim Potter.

The defense asked Chu to add information that included how Wright did not follow commands from police officers, including Potter, the police officer who shot and killed Wright, and instead tried to escape from the police and drove a vehicle without a license. The defense also asked Chu to include that fleeing from a police officer is considered to be a violent crime in the jury instructions.

Chu rejected both requests, saying that fleeing from a police officer is not always a violent felony and that the allegations of Wright's actions can be presented in testimonies, but will not be included as jury instructions. Potter, 49, is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in Wright's April 11, , death in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb. Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting, has said she meant to use her Taser on Wright after he tried to drive away from officers while they were trying to arrest him, but that she grabbed her handgun instead.

Exclusive: Young Dolph's partner says dealing with his death is 'extremely difficult'. Chu went with standard jury instructions to define second-degree manslaughter, which involves culpable negligence. For first-degree manslaughter, she said she would use language defining recklessness from jury instructions in an earlier case, which she said is the controlling law.

She resisted defense efforts to substitute broader language that might have given Potter more of an advantage. Chu said she would finalize the jury instruction on when police may use deadly force after hearing some testimony during the trial. Jury instructions are important because they tell jurors what the law is and how the facts of the case should be applied to the law, said Mike Brandt, a Minneapolis-area defense attorney who is not connected to the case.

Covid has led to a growing backlog of cases waiting to be dealt with by crown courts. Why are juries so important? B efore Covid struck, there were 37, cases waiting to be dealt with by the crown courts.

Since the pandemic halted jury trials in March, that backlog has risen to more than 41, Restricting the right to trial by jury could be the last resort of the government to reduce the growing backlog of cases.

A limited number of jury trials have started again, but the need for social distancing means that many courtrooms are not large enough for jury trials to be conducted safely. The lord chancellor, Robert Buckland QC, and the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, have both indicated their willingness to temporarily replace jury trials with trial by a judge and two lay magistrates, for defendants charged with either-way offences those that can be heard in a magistrates or crown court.

Some, including prominent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC, have suggested that defendants should be given the choice to be tried by a judge alone — as happens in some Commonwealth jurisdictions, including Australia and Canada. Others see the idea of restricting the right to trial by jury as an attack on one of the cornerstones of British criminal justice.