(April 19, 2021 at 5:24 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: It is probably a good move. The defense will have an excellent read on the judge's biases. They may have decided that the jury is already lost to them.
I am not arguing that it never happens, but I simply don't understand the process. Chauvin was all ready to let the laypeople and smpathizers take his side. But after the closing arguments suddenly Chauvin wants a judge, and not a jury to decide his fate.
