re: #93 Dangerman

maybe not when he woke up that morning

but somewhere along the continuum of minute 1 and minute 8 he chose to not stop what he was doing to the handcuffed man lying face down in the street under his knee

Correct, but I believe that’s still only second-degree murder. As far as I remember from laymans’ explanations, first-degree is if you went somewhere intending to kill a specific person, and did kill them. It’s going to be tough to argue that Chauvin had premeditated intent to kill George Floyd in a way that satisfies Murder 1.