Chauvin, Pleading Guilty, Faces 25 Years for Violating George Floyd’s Civil Rights
Under the proposed sentence, the earliest former Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin would be released from prison would be around 2042. It would run concurrently with his earlier 22-year sentence in his state trial for murder.
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Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that he used his position as a Minneapolis police officer to violate George Floyd’s constitutional rights, reports the New York Times. Prosecutors will seek to have him imprisoned for 25 years, a sentence that would run concurrently with his state sentence, meaning it would lengthen Chauvin’s prison term by about two and a half years. Under the proposed sentence and rules about credit for good behavior, the earliest Chauvin would be released from prison would likely be around 2042, when he would be in his mid-60s.
The terms of the plea agreement call for Chauvin to serve his time in a federal prison, which is generally considered to be safer and could separate Chauvin from prisoners he may have arrested. The agreement would also prohibit Chauvin, who was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department one day after Floyd’s death, from ever working as a police officer again. Chauvin also pleaded guilty to another federal charge of violating the civil rights of a 14-year-old boy in 2017, and agreed that he had held the boy by the throat, struck him in the head with a flashlight and pressed his knee on the neck of the teenager, who is Black, without justification.
