For the first time, we are hearing from one of the jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial. Lisa Christensen was alternate, but as juror number 96 she sat through every minute of testimony. While she wasn’t involved in deliberations, she told CBS, “I felt he was guilty. They read the jury instructions to us in the courtroom briefly, but I didn’t know it was going to be guilty on all counts but I would have said guilty.” She says she felt “the prosecution made a really good, strong argument.” One witness, Dr. Martin Tobin, a pulmonologist played an important role in her decision:
“Dr. Tobin was the one that really did it for me. He explained everything. I understood it down to where he said this is the moment that he lost his life, really got to me.”
As for the defense she said, “I don’t think they had a good impact… I think he over-promised in the beginning and didn’t live up to what he said he was going to do.”
Christensen went on to say, “I just don’t understand how it got from a counterfeit 20 dollar bill to a death. It kind of shocks me.”
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