CNN Senior Legal Analyst Laura Coates Mocked for Hot Take on Derek Chauvin’s Defense Strategy: Does the ‘Junior Legal Analyst’ Know Less Than You?

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Laura Coates drew a wave of criticism for a tweet she posted during the beginning of the defense’s closing argument during the Derek Chauvin trial, getting mocked for seemingly misunderstanding or misstating a basic legal principle. “Defense begins the closing by defining reasonable doubt, not with why [Chauvin] is innocent,” wrote […]