Elon Musk has joined calls for President Trump to pardon ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020. A Trump pardon would end Chauvin’s 20-year sentence on federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but Trump does not have the power to commute Chauvin’s 22.5-year sentence on state murder charges.
Oh boy. I mean sure, pardon the federal charges.
He’s still got time he owes Minnesota about 20 years yet. I don’t know what the laws about where he serves are, but I don’t imagine he’ll be placed somewhere better.
Prisons in Minnesota are much more likely to have inmates that he personally arrested, so moving from federal to state prison would be significantlyworse for him