MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin will be sentenced Thursday on federal civil rights charges connected to the 2020 murder of George Floyd and a previous excessive force case involving a Minneapolis teenager.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Tuesday scheduled sentencing for the ex-Minneapolis police officer for 2 p.m. Thursday at the St. Paul federal courthouse.
Federal prosecutors are seeking a 25-year sentence for Chauvin, who pleaded guilty last year to two counts of civil rights violations stemming from the separate cases. His attorney, Eric Nelson, is asking Magnuson to sentence the 46-year-old Chauvin to 20 years, the lower end of the range both parties settled upon in Chauvin's plea agreement. The federal sentence imposed this week will likely be served concurrently with the 22 1/2 year sentence Chauvin is serving for his state jury murder conviction, also from last year.
