Judge in Chauvin case rejects jury sequestration after Daunte Wright shooting

The judge presiding over the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin denied a motion from the defense to sequester the jury after a different officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop on Sunday.

Judge Peter Cahill denied the motion on Monday, saying that there was no indication the jurors were unfairly influenced by the shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, a black man who was killed by police on Sunday just miles from Chauvin’s Minneapolis trial. The judge instead ruled in favor of the prosecution, who argued that jury sequestration, or the isolation of a jury to avoid accidental or deliberate tainting of the jurors by exposing them to outside information, would be unnecessary.