Who Are Erin Eldridge and Other Key Players in the Kim Potter Trial?

U.S.|Who are the lawyers successful the Kim Potter trial? And who are the different cardinal players?

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, fewer radical are being allowed successful the courtroom for the proceedings of Kimberly Potter, the erstwhile constabulary serviceman charged with manslaughter, but for Ms. Potter, the jury, the justice and different tribunal staff, and lawyers for the prosecution and the defense. Three seats each are reserved for relatives of Mr. Wright and Ms. Potter, and 2 seats are saved for a rotating excavation of journalists.

Here are the cardinal radical who are portion of the trial.

The Prosecution

• Matthew Frank, an adjunct lawyer wide for Minnesota, is starring the prosecution. He prosecutes transgression cases for the office, which is tally by Attorney General Keith Ellison. The lawyer general’s bureau took connected the lawsuit successful May astatine the petition of the Hennepin County territory attorney.

• Erin Eldridge, an adjunct lawyer general, works successful the office’s transgression division. Like Mr. Frank, she was progressive successful the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, the erstwhile Minneapolis constabulary serviceman who was convicted successful April of murdering George Floyd.

The Defense

• Representing Ms. Potter are Earl Gray, Paul Engh and Amanda Montgomery. Mr. Gray and Mr. Engh are portion of the ineligible defence money of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, a radical that represents thousands of instrumentality enforcement officers successful the state, and Ms. Montgomery works astatine Mr. Gray’s instrumentality firm.

• Mr. Gray besides is the lawyer for Thomas Lane, 1 of the 3 different officers charged successful Mr. Floyd’s death. Mr. Lane is scheduled to spell connected proceedings with the different officers successful March connected charges that helium aided and abetted second-degree execution and aided and abetted second-degree manslaughter successful Mr. Floyd’s death.

  The Judge

• Judge Regina Chu has been a justice successful Hennepin County for astir 2 decades aft being appointed successful 2002 by Jesse Ventura, Minnesota’s politician astatine the time. She had antecedently worked successful a backstage instrumentality signifier and, successful the 1980s, for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.

• Judge Chu earned her instrumentality grade from William Mitchell College of Law successful St. Paul, Minn., which is present known arsenic the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She graduated with a bachelor’s grade from the University of Minnesota.

The Jury

• The assemblage is made up of 12 superior jurors, arsenic good arsenic 2 alternates. Their identities volition not beryllium publically disclosed until aft the trial.

• Among the 12 superior jurors, six are men and six are women, and they scope successful property from their 20s to their 60s. Nine of the 12 jurors are white, 2 are Asian and 1 is Black. Hennepin County, from wherever the jurors were drawn, is astir 68 percent white, 14 percent Black, 8 percent Asian and 7 percent Latino.