MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill moved the trial date from January to Oct. 24 for two former Minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd.
Cahill made the decision in a brief remote hearing with lawyers for J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao. The trial initially was to start in June, but Cahill recently pushed that back to Jan. 5 citing a preponderance of pretrial publicity that was prejudicial to the defendants.
Kueng's attorney Thomas Plunkett, however, asked Cahill to reconsider the date because of a personal commitment in January. Thao's attorney Bob Paule said in court he was fine with the October date. In response, however, prosecutors filed a motion, seeking to move the trial to August.
