Criminal Law
A Minnesota Appeals Court Has Cleared a Path for Third-Degree Murder Charges Against the Officers Involved in George Floyd’s Death
The Minnesota Court of Appeals cleared the way for three former Minneapolis police officers to be charged with aiding and abetting third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
The court issued an order on Wednesday reversing an order from Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill denying prosecutors’ motion to add the charge against J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Kiernan Lane and Tou Thao. The matter now goes back to Cahill.
Kueng, Lane and Thao had initially been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death, but were never charged with third-degree murder.
