let's bring in cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman, whowaishh us. and, rikki, what do you make of how quickly the jury found derek chauvin guilty on all three counts? >> use-of-force cases usually involve a matter of seconds, split-second decisions and determinations. this case was different. the jury could look with their own eyes and listen when they saw that videotape. this was nine minutes and 29 seconds of excessive use of force, and over three minutes after george floyd was after george floyd was non- responsive and lost his ability to live. so i am not surprised that the verdict was thuihi in most other cases. >> o'donnell: the evidence in some ways overwhelming what can we expect from that? >> reporter: the sentencing will be in approximately eight weeks, as you've pointed out, norah, there is a maximum on the top count of 40 years. the sentences would run concurrently because they are all part of one act. what will happen here is that the judge will consider mitigating factors that helped derek chauvin and aggravating factors that make a se

we're joined now by cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. as you heard, the judge said it could be grounds ultimately for a mistrial for anu see tstrl? >> the defense argued, and the defense was correct to argue, this was intimidation of a jury because it was going to affect potentially the sanctity of the jury's deliberation process. the phrase that preceded the confrontation phrase was something to the effect that maxine waters was looking for a verdict that she hoped it was guilty, guilty, guilty. but if it wasn't, and then she went on that they were going to have more confrontation. the only thing that the judge didn't do, which he should have done and the defense should have demanded it, was before the jurors went to deliberate, they should have inquired of each juror to see if they had any information about maxine waters' words because it does potentially create an error for appeal. >> what did you make of the closing argument for both sides? how effective do you think they were? >> we certainly have to look at the prosecution's first

maybe go to the bathroom, get an apple, bite a banana, rikki klieman, i'm thinking if i was a juror my head would be spinning. how effective do you think the close was, what we've heard so far, the pros and the cons. >> the obviously con is the length, and part of it has to do with expectation. if you are a lawyer who is fighting for your client's life and liberty, and you know that you are going to have a closing argument that is going to go in excess of an hour and a half, let alone to two and a half hours, what you need to do is to tell that to the judge and the prosecutor so that you could have taken a lunch break back an hour or an hour and a half ago because you have jurors who not only have their minds kind of in'tten b they'rey, and i'm no cute abou,th brk, so you stop listening. it is quite fine if a judge is not going to set a time limit oy judges do, but if they're not going to set a time limit on closing arguments, then it's up to you, because you're the lawyer, especially in the defense's position here, that the last thing you want to do is tire these jurors, so that's the

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cbs news legal expert and analyst rikki klieman says it's important for prosecutors to play it straighthen it comes to floyd's drug use. >> the prosecution has to come across to the jury as the total giver of truth. if you know it's going to come out and you know it's really bad for you and you're the prosecution, put it in. >> the defense has argued that drugs and underlying health conditions led to floyd's death while he was in police custody. >>> police are blaming excessive speed and loss of control in the crash that badly injured tiger woods. the los angeles county sheriff's office said the golfer was going up to 87 miles per hour, almost double the speed limit. his car hit a tree and rolled several times off a road near los angeles back in february. there was no evidence woods tried to brake. woods will not be cited or face charges. he is still recovering from his injuries. >>> coming up, celebrity zookeeper jack hannah is stepping back from public life after a dementia diagnosis. >>> and a surprise play -- basketball star shaquille o'neal is caught on video carrying out a generou

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cbs news legal expert and analyst rikki klieman. is it smart for the prosecution to get ahead of this and try to deflate the defense's argument? >> if the prosecution looks like it's hiding something, the jury will hold that against the prosecutor. >> reporter: another struggle for prosecutors today, trying to explain why a pill with floyd's d.n.a. sat unexamined in the back of the police cruiser for about six months. mckenzie anderson wasathe lead crime scene investigator. >> i obtained a single-source male d.n.a. profile that marches george floyd. >> reporter: another hit for the prosecution will likely come when the defense presents the jury with a 2019 arrest of george floyd. it's similar to the one that led to his death a year later. it began with a traffic stop and while in custody, floyd told officers he had swallowed several tablets of percocet. he was then taken to the hospital that time. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, jamie yuccas, thank you. we want to turn now to a cbs news investigation and allegations that congressman

. >> reporter: cbs legal analyst rikki klieman.ere also a strategy in bringing it up ahead of the defense? >> the prosecution is always better off with bringing up bad evidence ahead of the defense, if they know the defense is going to bring it up, because then the prosecution becomes the giver of truth-- it's not trying to hide anything. >> reporter: martin says floyd bought a pack of cigarettes with what appeared to be a >> i noticed it had a blue >> i noticed that it had a blue pigment to it, kind of how a $100 bill would have, and i found that odd. so i assumed that it was fake. >> reporter: martin and hiss coworkers tried twice to get coworkers tried twice to get floyd to speak with their manager, but he remained in his s.u.v. a store employee then called police. >> what was going on in your mind during that time period? >> disbelief, and guilt. >> why guilt? >> if i would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided. >> reporter: rodney floyd, george floyd's brother, sat in court today. when prosecutors played t

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. >> reporter: cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman says the younger floyd was used as what's called a spark-of-life witness, meant to show the jury how much george floyd's life influenced others. >> this was obviously very, very painful for him and his family and jurors are people, they can feel that kind of pain. >> reporter: earlier on the stand, cardiologist jonathan rich echoed previous testimony and said george floyd's heart sopped because of low oxygen levels caused by ex-officer derek chauvin's actions. before the trial resumed monday, the defense asked to sequester the jury because of the fatal police shooting of daunte wright. >> i think brings it to the forefront of the jury's mindset that a verdict in this case is going to have consequences. >> reporter: but the judge denied the motion, a move rikki klieman disagrees with. >> they can't get away from it when they go to the courthouse and can't get away from it when they go home. it seems the only reasonable thing to do would have been to sequester them on monday. >> reporter: the defense is expected to begin its part of t

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. >> reporter: cbs legal analyst rikki klieman. does derek chauvin stake the stand now. >> only person who could say that he thought he wasn't done this before was derek chauvin. >> focusing on use of force is one part of the prosecutor's case. the other is proving to the jury chauvin's need on george floyd's neck led to his death. yesterday the emergency room doctor who tried to revive floyd testified he died from lack of oxygen. that is a crucial argument in the prosecution's case. chauvin's defense countered that could be related to the drugs in floyd's system. >> it all comes down to the jury. jamie, thank you very much >>> we have breaking news overnight in the fight over the new voting law in georgia. baseball's all-star game will reportedly be held at denver's coors field, that is the home of the colorado rockies, after the league pulled out of atlanta. ed o'keefe is following this from washington and is both baseball fan and knows politics. good morning to you. what's behind the decision? knos politics. good morning to you.

. >> reporter: cbs news legal analyst rickki klieman.re students get the covid-19 vaccine before returning to campus? >> it absolutely is legal. colleges and universities throughout the country just like employers always have the right to enforce the public health. >> reporter: do you think universities and colleges will end up in court over this? >> i have flohave no doubt there legal challenges. these are not vaccines like others for colleges and universities that have stood the test of time. so it is an avenue for a legal challenge. it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be successful. >> reporter: what does rutgers university in the fall look like? >> it looks like a busy campus. remember, i start -- i'm a covid president. i've never seen this campus alive with all of its students. that's what i'm hoping to accomplish. and so we can get back to life as we used to know it. >> reporter: rutgers plans to start administering the vaccine here on campus pretty soon. they don't have a clear date weathernet that is going -- when that is go

cbs news' legal analyst rikki klieman. >> the defense says it was his heart condition plus his ingestion of drugs on that day. so the prosecution knows this is coming and they better head it off at the pass which is what they tried to do today. >> reporter: the defense also came back to one of its central arguments -- the effect the crowd had on the actions when questioning lapd sergeant jody stiger. >> you're an officer and engaged with the suspect, right, and somebody now is pacing around and watching you and watching you and calling you names and saying you're a [ bleep ] -- this could be viewed by a reasonable officer as a threat. >> as a potential threat, correct. >> reporter: the prosecution asked specifically about the crowd that was on the scene that day. >> i did not perceive them as being a threat. they were merely filming, and the hampton county medical examiner will testify later this week, and he will classify it as a homicide saying he died of cardiac arrest, complicated by restraints and neck ssions. >> but you make the point it will come down to one juror, that's all it t

can we go to rikki klieman at this particular time, eva?> there she is. >> we have rikki. >> i know you were paying attention with both ears, too. number one, i'm curious about what you thought about him doing the instructions first. is that normally done that way? >> it has become a way to be done in more modern courtrooms. it really is important in a case like this to help the jury have an organized deliberation by knowing the law before they hear the closings, and then getting a bit of a tag on the law from the judge in the end. the other thing that this court is doing, which i think is very helpful to the jurors, in addition to these instructions, is he is providing them with written copies of the instructions. i cannot tell you how many cases i have tried where the jury would come back again and again, asking for another definition of a charge. here they will have those charges right before them in the jury room. so, this is a modern way to handle this -- >> rikki, sorry, it looks like it's unfrozen. we're going back to the courtroom.

week's testimony and what's ahead in the chauvin trial, we're joined by cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start here -- week one wrapped with expert testimony from the prosecution. many of whom, those witnesses on the stand were law enforcement, focusing on use of force. how effective was they? >> if you look at week one, we had all of the emotional anguished testimony of the bystanders. week two was expert witness week. and it followed the the two potential defenses in this case. the defense led in its opening statement by saying that the cause of death was not from derek chauvin's knee upon the neck of george floyd, but was due to heart disease complicated by drug use. the other defense had to do with the fact of excessive force with the defense saying, no, no, no, what he did was not excessive, i was within the training, and that is why those two defenses are so important. so what does the prosecution do? it leads with the training issue. and they had witness after witness who was there to give powerful and yet detached testimony not as emotiona