One of the more important characteristics of any country that I would consider to be developed would be its ability for the professionals and experts to simply report the truth transparently without any fear of reprisal or blowback.
Every country, of course, has sacred cows which it tries to protect. This is not really an issue. But when it comes to reporting the facts clearly & concisely of a crime or some other incident that does not need to be inherently political, there can be no effort to make a cover up.
But take a look at what Chauvin's defense team is relying on:
Handwritten notes of a law enforcement interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, say Floyd had 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his system.
"If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD. Deaths have been certified with levels of 3," Baker told investigators.
The documents that should clearly convey this information are too opaque to clearly communicate this information. This, alone, would be just potentially be an error of how the documents themselves are organized, but combined with the fact that one can expect "expert" witnesses and the coroners themselves to firmly put themselves into the pocket of the prosecutor's, the defense is absolutely forced to rely on documents like these.
You are no longer living in a truly developed country when it is the case that people are too shy to speak the facts in a court case because political interest groups are so invested in their narratives that they seek to win political points through dishonesty.
Any society which cannot examine individual events objectively has no hope of having a functioning democracy.
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