Biden DOJ tries to stop reexamination of George Floyd autopsy results

President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) is now trying to stop the examination of George Floyd's heart.

This comes, according to Fox News, after Derek Chauvin secured a major legal victory. A judge recently granted him his request to re-examine the heart of Flloyd.

This is all part of the appeal that Chauvin is pursuing for his legal conviction. Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer who was involved in the death of Floyd. He has been convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights, and it is this conviction that he is appealing.

The big question here is why the Biden administration is opposing this move. Many allege that it is because they are trying to cover something up.

Here's what is going on:

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted Chauvin's request to review certain aspects of Floyd's autopsy.

Newsweek, at the time, reported:

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's legal team has been granted permission to examine heart tissue and fluid samples taken during George Floyd's autopsy as part of a challenge to his federal civil rights conviction.

The outlet went on to explain why exactly it is that Chauvin and his legal team have made this request.

Per Newsweek:

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Monday granted a motion to inspect the evidence as part of Chauvin's claim that it was an underlying heart condition—and not Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck—that caused the Black man's death in 2020.

What exactly caused Floyd's passing has been a point of debate for years now. The reexamination of the autopsy could help to finally settle the matter.

But...

If the Biden administration has it their way, then no reexamination of the autopsy results will be taken place.

The U.S. Department of Justice is now asking for Magnuson's decision - to allow the review - to be reconsindered.

Fox reports:

In a 10-page motion to reconsider filed Tuesday, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota argued that Chauvin had "no legal basis for [his] discovery requests, all of which stem solely from an email he received from an unvetted doctor offering a weaker version of the medical defense than the version that the jury had previously rejected at his state trial."

In addition to this, the DOJ argued against Chauvin's claim that he had ineffective counsel at trial.

We are now waiting to see how the judge will respond to the DOJ's filing: either by allowing the reexamination of the autopsy results to go forward or by stopping it. We should be given the answer very soon.