Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin’s lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd’s body examined. It’s part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd’s civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd’s 2020 killing. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted the order Monday, agreeing to let the defence examine Floyd’s heart tissue and fluid samples. This will be done to test a theory that Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumour, not — as prosecutors contend — from asphyxiation caused by the white officer pressing his knee on the [b]lack man’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes in May 2020.” (12/17/24)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/testing-george-floyd-tissue-new-trial-1.7413221