@jca2 _Maximum sentences for the three counts Chauvin is charged with are as follows:
1. 2nd degree murder: 40 years.
2. 3rd degree murder: 25 years
3. 2nd degree homicide: 10 years.
If Chauvin is found guilty of all three, or two of three, his sentences will run concurrently. So the maximum combined sentence is 40 years. Since you have indicated that you will not be happy with anything less, you want him convicted of second degree murder. All the Prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt to all 12 jurors are the following:
1. Chauvin was in the process of committing a felony when the death occurred.
2. Chauvin was the direct cause of Floyd’s death.
2 may have been proved, but good luck with the first.
Murder in the third degree requires conduct that is eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind. That may be hard to prove also.
That leaves the manslaughter charge. So you and thousands of protesters are most probably going to be screaming for the judge to invoke sentence increasing modifiers. If the judge chooses to, he can increase the manslaughter sentence to 15 years. I would say that is extremely unlikely to survive appeals.
All I can say to you and others like you is to be happy with a good prosecutorial effort, and then let the chips fall where they may.