Overview
- Prison records list Nov. 3 as his release date from a federal facility in Lexington, Kentucky.
- He was convicted in federal and state cases, including a 4.75-year state term for aiding and abetting manslaughter that ran concurrent with a federal civil-rights sentence.
- Judge Peter Cahill found he actively kept bystanders back and prevented medical aid as Derek Chauvin restrained George Floyd.
- Thao chose a state trial rather than a plea, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review his federal conviction in January 2024.
- Upon release, he will remain on supervised release until June 2027 under his Hennepin County sentence.