A note: I am an appellate lawyer. Yet, I know next to nothing about criminal appeals (other than habeas). The number of people qualified to opine on the chances of success on the Chauvin appeal are very small, and most of them are criminal appellate lawyers.
So, take Twitter with a grain of salt for a little while.

Having said that, you will soon discover that even the very best criminal appellate lawyers are very used to losing almost all their cases.
Like I said yesterday. You should especially ignore attention seekers like Dersh.
I don’t know what’s going to happen with this case, but SCOTUS overturning the conviction is an lol.
I understand, telling untruths to people who don’t know better pays well, but really people. Just stop it.
Like i said, criminal appeals I don’t know about. But I do know something about how SCOTUS works. And they are not going to take any case, much less this case, to opine on the discretion of a state court trial judge to sequester the jury because of a politician’s bluster. Nope.

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