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Thursday, October 6th:
*Motions Hearing (State) (@ 9am CT) - MN – George Perry Floyd, Jr. (46) (May 25, 2020, Minneapolis, arrested for forgery & killed in police custody) – for *Tou Thao (34/now 36) & *J. Alexander Kueng (26/now 29) were fired (5/26/20), arrested (6/3/20) & charged (6/4/20) with aiding & abetting 2nd degree murder-unintentional-while committing a felony & aiding & abetting 2nd degree manslaughter-culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk. Bond set at $1M for all or bond conditions @ $750K. Kueng released (6/19/20) on $750K bond with conditions. Thao released (7/4/20) on $750K bond with conditions.
*Thomas Kiernan Lane (37/now 39) plead guilty (5/18/22) to a State charge of aiding & abetting 2nd degree manslaughter. As part of Wednesday’s plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding & abetting 2nd degree unintentional murder dismissed. Per plea will only serve 3 years in Federal prison currently with his federal sentence of violating Floyd’s civil rights. Sentencing on 9/21/22. Sentenced to 3 years in Federal prison.
Trial has been changed to begin on 10/24/22 with jury selection. Opening statements will begin on 11/7/22. The jury won't be sequestered except for deliberations, but with security restrictions. (No trial on 11/11 & 11/23-25/22). Trial will be finished & deliberations will begin on or before 12/16/22.
Bond conditions & court info from 6/3/20 to 7/22/22 reference post #370 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...ody-minneapolis-25-may-2020-21.586952/page-19
8/11/22 Update: Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill scheduled a hearing for Monday, 8/15/22 on the “status of plea negotiations” for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on State charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the hearing coming after the judge’s window for accepting any deal appears to have closed. Judge Cahill said in previous orders that he would not accept plea agreements unless they came within a 15-day window after former Officers Thao & Kueng were sentenced in Federal court on separate civil rights charges. Those sentences came down 7/27/22. His orders did not specify business days or calendar days. Court spokesman Matt Lehman said only that Monday’s scheduled 9am hearing was “to discuss the status of plea negotiations.” Motions in Limine hearings on 10/6/22 & 10/7/22.
8/15/22 Update: Thao & Kueng rejected a final plea deal of 36 months from the State. The deal would drop the highest offense of aiding & abetting 2nd degree murder & then require both defendants to admit to aiding abetting 2nd degree manslaughter. The deal would have run concurrently with a federal sentence they received earlier this year. Kueng was sentenced to 3 years in prison, while Thao was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Next Motions in Limine hearing on 10/6/22 & 10/7/22.
8/18/22 Update: Morries Lester Hall, who was with Floyd before he was killed on May 25, 2020, has indicated that he intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination again if called to testify in the upcoming trial of former officers, Thao & Kueng. His public defender, Adrienne Cousins, wrote of Hall’s plan in a motion filed on Tuesday, 8/16/22 in Hennepin County District Court. Hall previously decided to plead the Fifth in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Chauvin.
9/27/22: Thao: Proposed Order or document (#603). Other document (#604). Waiver of appearance (#605). Write of Habeas Corpus (#606). 9/21/22: Kueng: Waiver of appearance (#611). 9/27/22: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (#612). Proposed order or document (#613). Other document (#614). Write of Habeas Corpus (#615).
10/3/22 Update: Kueng & Thao are scheduled to begin serving their Federal sentenced & are scheduled to report to the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday, 10/4/22 morning. The Bureau of Prisons typically would assign them to a federal facility, but authorities have not publicly said where they will go. They are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding & abetting both murder & manslaughter later this month. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said it anticipates Kueng & Thao will be transferred into its custody for the trial, but further specifics were not provided for security reasons. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill issued an order Monday, 10/3/22 saying the sheriff’s office must provide the men with access to three sets of clothing for the trial — as well as for two hearings scheduled for later this week — further suggesting that they will be in local custody.
*Motions Hearing (State) (@ 9am CT) - MN – George Perry Floyd, Jr. (46) (May 25, 2020, Minneapolis, arrested for forgery & killed in police custody) – for *Tou Thao (34/now 36) & *J. Alexander Kueng (26/now 29) were fired (5/26/20), arrested (6/3/20) & charged (6/4/20) with aiding & abetting 2nd degree murder-unintentional-while committing a felony & aiding & abetting 2nd degree manslaughter-culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk. Bond set at $1M for all or bond conditions @ $750K. Kueng released (6/19/20) on $750K bond with conditions. Thao released (7/4/20) on $750K bond with conditions.
*Thomas Kiernan Lane (37/now 39) plead guilty (5/18/22) to a State charge of aiding & abetting 2nd degree manslaughter. As part of Wednesday’s plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding & abetting 2nd degree unintentional murder dismissed. Per plea will only serve 3 years in Federal prison currently with his federal sentence of violating Floyd’s civil rights. Sentencing on 9/21/22. Sentenced to 3 years in Federal prison.
Trial has been changed to begin on 10/24/22 with jury selection. Opening statements will begin on 11/7/22. The jury won't be sequestered except for deliberations, but with security restrictions. (No trial on 11/11 & 11/23-25/22). Trial will be finished & deliberations will begin on or before 12/16/22.
Bond conditions & court info from 6/3/20 to 7/22/22 reference post #370 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...ody-minneapolis-25-may-2020-21.586952/page-19
8/11/22 Update: Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill scheduled a hearing for Monday, 8/15/22 on the “status of plea negotiations” for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on State charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the hearing coming after the judge’s window for accepting any deal appears to have closed. Judge Cahill said in previous orders that he would not accept plea agreements unless they came within a 15-day window after former Officers Thao & Kueng were sentenced in Federal court on separate civil rights charges. Those sentences came down 7/27/22. His orders did not specify business days or calendar days. Court spokesman Matt Lehman said only that Monday’s scheduled 9am hearing was “to discuss the status of plea negotiations.” Motions in Limine hearings on 10/6/22 & 10/7/22.
8/15/22 Update: Thao & Kueng rejected a final plea deal of 36 months from the State. The deal would drop the highest offense of aiding & abetting 2nd degree murder & then require both defendants to admit to aiding abetting 2nd degree manslaughter. The deal would have run concurrently with a federal sentence they received earlier this year. Kueng was sentenced to 3 years in prison, while Thao was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Next Motions in Limine hearing on 10/6/22 & 10/7/22.
8/18/22 Update: Morries Lester Hall, who was with Floyd before he was killed on May 25, 2020, has indicated that he intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination again if called to testify in the upcoming trial of former officers, Thao & Kueng. His public defender, Adrienne Cousins, wrote of Hall’s plan in a motion filed on Tuesday, 8/16/22 in Hennepin County District Court. Hall previously decided to plead the Fifth in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Chauvin.
9/27/22: Thao: Proposed Order or document (#603). Other document (#604). Waiver of appearance (#605). Write of Habeas Corpus (#606). 9/21/22: Kueng: Waiver of appearance (#611). 9/27/22: Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (#612). Proposed order or document (#613). Other document (#614). Write of Habeas Corpus (#615).
10/3/22 Update: Kueng & Thao are scheduled to begin serving their Federal sentenced & are scheduled to report to the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday, 10/4/22 morning. The Bureau of Prisons typically would assign them to a federal facility, but authorities have not publicly said where they will go. They are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding & abetting both murder & manslaughter later this month. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said it anticipates Kueng & Thao will be transferred into its custody for the trial, but further specifics were not provided for security reasons. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill issued an order Monday, 10/3/22 saying the sheriff’s office must provide the men with access to three sets of clothing for the trial — as well as for two hearings scheduled for later this week — further suggesting that they will be in local custody.
