Overview
- Tou Thao is scheduled to leave federal custody on Monday, Nov. 3, according to state and federal prison records.
- He is serving a 3½-year federal sentence concurrent with a 4¾-year state term for aiding and abetting manslaughter and a civil-rights conviction.
- Judge Peter Cahill found Thao guilty in the state case, writing that he held back bystanders and blocked an off-duty firefighter from providing aid.
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Thao’s federal conviction in January 2024, leaving the judgment in place.
- Co-defendants J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were released from federal prison in January 2025 and August 2024, respectively, while Derek Chauvin remains incarcerated with a projected federal release in November 2037.