after a long-awaited trial verdict. Found guilty on all three counts he faces a maximum prison sentence of 75 years however it will be eight weeks before we see his sentencing.
You only have to look at the Google Trends search terms to see this in action, as we speak. Right now, as well as ‘Derek Chauvin innocent’, ‘Derek Chauvin kids’, ‘Derek Chauvin wife’ and ‘Does Derek Chauvin have children’ are all major search terms. This is in the UK, by the way – not just the US, where ‘Is Derek Chauvin parents still alive’ and ‘Derek Chauvin family members’ are trending too.
In actual fact, Chauvin has no children and his wife, Kellie, filed divorce papers the day after he was charged. That was met with scrutiny though, with Washington County District Judge Juanita Freeman rejecting their initial settlement in October citing possible fraud - their divorce settlement would've transferred most of Derek Chauvin's assets to his wife, adding to speculation that they were trying to protect funds from litigation against Chauvin.