WASHNGTON – he U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s appeal of his second-degree murder conviction in the 2020 death of George Floyd. The Court gave no explanation. Nor did it indicate whether any justices vote to heard the appeal. The usual practice is to take cases if four of the nine justices concur to do so. Chauvin, age 47, is in a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, on a 21-year sentence.
