Chauvin defense attorney Eric Nelson compares "elements" of a criminal case to "baking chocolate chip cookies" in his closing argument.
“If you are talking, you are breathing.” — Chauvin defense attorney Eric Nelson, in his closing argument, references George Floyd's repeated calls of “I can’t breathe.”
(The prosecution’s witness, pulmonologist Dr. Martin Tobin, testified against this.)
Chauvin defense attorney Eric Nelson says "a reasonable police officer" will consider that some people "pretend to have a medical emergency ... simply because they don’t want to go to jail."