In what is likely to be the first of many reconsiderations, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has appealed his case to a higher court after he was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

After jury deliberations, Chauvin was rapidly sentenced to 22 and 1/2 half years in prison following an explosion of riots, arson, looting and murder across major and largely Democrat-led cities in 2020.

Attorneys for Derek Chauvin, 46, filed an exhaustive 82-page appeal in which they asked the court to either reverse his conviction, grant him a new trial in a different venue, or remand the case back to a  lower court for resentencing, the Hill reported.