Judge Peter Cahill ruled to disqualify four prosecutors from cases relating to George Floyd's death. | Stock Photo
Judge Peter Cahill ruled to disqualify four prosecutors from cases relating to George Floyd's death. | Stock Photo
Four prosecutors have been disqualified from cases that are related to the death of George Floyd by Judge Peter Cahill, but the Hennepin County Attorney's Office is asking for that order to be reconsidered by filing a motion, KSTP reported.
After the attorney of Derek Chauvin, one of the four police officers on trial for Floyd's death, requested for the four prosecutors to be disqualified from the case, Cahill approved the request.
But William Wernz, a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and former director of the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, said he didn't think the prosecutors made any violations.
"In my opinion, the interviews of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner by HCAO (Hennepin County Attorney's Office) did not furnish any basis for a conclusion that they violated Rule 3.7," Wernz said in an affidavit in the motion for reconsideration, KSTP reported.
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