Go ahead and count your chickens now, Bears. OJ was found not guilty by a jury, but that doesn't mean he was innocent...
On appeal, this may wind up in a different result.
For the record, I do think he was guilty of manslaughter, and there's a good case on Murder 2, but not Murder 3 based on the actual MN statutes.
Legally, that's another case altogether.
Under MN law, regardless what the jury decided, the actual language for Murder 3 might be cause for the appeals court to reverse that charge. The state's Supreme Court was already reviewing another case where a black officer shot a white woman a few years back, and if Noor's conviction gets overturned, so would Chauvin's as they were similar circumstances (the statute is written and currently interpreted as requiring multiple people to be at risk of harm, not an individual).
Murder 2 may also be in question because the statute requires trying to cause intentional bodily harm. An appeals court might reverse that on the ground the exact style of restraint he used was part of the MPD's operating procedures at the time; if it was an approved restraint, presumably it wasn't intended to cause bodily harm...
And that doesn't even start to go into the potential appeals based on the lack of sequestration, or how the ongoing riots in MSP and fear of injury/reprisal might have influenced the jury.