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To summarize, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an abnormal mental injury suffered by someone who experienced a traumatic event-one that is outside the range of typical human experience. Untreated or inadequately treated, PTSD can have devastating, far-reaching consequences for a victim's functioning (americanbar.org). It is a defense but there also needs to be consistency in the claim, or the events are similar enough to trigger enough stress to cause hallucinations, panic or other symptoms that could interfere with his performance. Listening to Derek Chauvin apologize in a video and he cites more information to come, could be about revealing he has PTSD. I could not find anything saying he suffered from PTSD, but in his line of work it would not be a stretch to say he experienced some traumatic events outside the typical human experience. It would also help if he was seeking treatment for it, or he may have been trying to seek assistance for it and was not diagnosed at the time. So, this is a defense I could not find it in black and white saying PTSD would be a reason for him not to be competent to stand trial, I was able to find legally it was a defense and what some of the factors for such a defense are.

I did come across an article that offered reasons why he did not receive a fair trial based off the president and Maxine Waters comments on this case before the verdict was given. This could lead to bias and threats to riot if he did not receive a guilty verdict. This could of course cause worry about the jury members themselves or their family.