State vs. Derek Chauvin - Order Denying Motion

https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Order07132021.pdf

The State also notes social science research which it contends “demonstrates that ‘adults
view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers’” and suggests that
“observers discount the experiences of young Black girls” and perceive them “as needing less
protection and nurturing than white girls.” State’s July 7 Letter, at 2, 6. No evidence of any
such social science research was presented by the State to this Court prior to the June 25
sentencing. Be that as it may, it is the State that is injecting supposed racial presumptions in this
case, not this Court. This Court never mentioned in its Sentencing Memorandum Opinion the
racial or ethnic status of any of the observers at the scene on May 25 or of the three young
women and nine year-old J.R. who are the focus of the State’s July 17 Letter.

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