The young hero of the right-wing may go scot free due to a procedural screw up. It has happened before. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version of what has taken place. First, legal experts have opined that the prosecution seems to be blowing it, unlike in the George Floyd trial where they were spot on. Secondly, enough screw ups have happened to allow the defense to call for a mistrial, with prejudice, which means that the case cannot be retried. That happened a short while ago. VICE News:

Rittenhouse took the stand Wednesday and broke down crying while his own lawyer questioned him about the night he shot and killed two people in late August last year during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

However, when Rittenhouse was cross-examined by prosecutor Thomas Binger, the lawyer brought up comments that the teenager made in a video that Schroeder had not yet allowed to be admitted in court, and had said he was likely to refuse.

“Your honor, Mr. Binger is either forgetting the court’s rulings or attempting to provoke a mistrial in this matter,” said Rittenhouse lead attorney Mark Richards in response.

In the likely-to-be-ruled out video, shot just 15 days before the night in Kenosha, Rittenhouse talked about wanting to shoot shoplifters. Corey Chirafisi, another Rittenhouse defense attorney, implied the prosecution were intentionally overreaching to get the case thrown out to “get another kick at the cat.” […]

A large portion of the prosecution’s cross examination was spent in a heated argument with Schroeder about Binger’s conduct. The prosecutor said that “[Rittenhouse] is tailoring his story to the evidence that’s been introduced”, noting he didn’t speak about the case until the trial. Schroeder paused the trial and chastised Binger by saying he’s “right on the borderline” of violating Rittenhouse’s right to be silent. […]

Under the questioning of his own lawyer, Richards, Rittenhouse told his version of how the night unfolded. He broke down when first speaking about his encounter with the first man he killed that night, forcing the court to briefly adjourn. When he returned he spoke calmly and confidently about that night, painting a picture of a scene where he was forced to use “deadly force.” You can read more about his testimony here. 

There is one card left for the prosecution to play, possibly, and that is judicial bias.

Maybe the judge is a right-winger and not partial. Who knows. He has been accused of interjecting constantly in Rittenhouse’s favor. The only thing you can say for sure is that this trial has gotten curiouser and curiouser with today being a real blow out.

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Why isn’t this kid’s mother being prosecuted? She drove her underage son across state lines with an illegal weapon. She’s as guilty as he is if not more so. She’s an adult while he’s an impressionable child. Not saying he’s not guilty of murder, just that mom enabled him and should be prosecuted as well.

  2. The aerial video showed by the prosecution was hard to see what really happened. Another video shown on CNN and MSNBC was at street level and clearly showed Rittenhouse being rushed by several guys with murder on their minds who were not deterred by an AR15 pointed at them. The statement than one of them only had a pistol was absurd.
    It was a very stupid questioning and the jury should recognize it.

    • ” . . . Rittenhouse being rushed by several guys with murder on their minds who were not deterred by an AR15 pointed at them.”

      Oh, so you’re a mind reader, now? You know FOR A FACT that those guys had “murder on their minds?” That, my dear Gerald, is OPINION and, believe it or not, that’s NOT evidence. It’s not even allowed as evidence (at least in a fair courtroom).

      But what IS evidence is the fact that a MINOR crossed STATE LINES with a WEAPON THAT HE HAD NO LEGAL REASON TO POSSESS and he SHOT AND KILLED people. And this judge is likely to rule out the VIDEO that showed Rittenhouse’s talking about shooting people.

      EVERY SINGLE TIME you’ve popped up here, it seems your sole purpose is to play right-wing gadfly–ALWAYS supporting the right-wing view on EVERY topic. If I’ve somehow missed some comment of yours that is contrary to what I’ve just written, well then, I apologize. But, it’s amazing how I can only seem to recall your knee-jerk defense of the right-wing and their supporters/advocates and nothing that calls out such people on their misdeeds.

      • Indeed! I have entirely had it with wingnuts who talk of freedom but only mean the freedom to have as many guns as u want and freedom to force their own insidious views on everyone else. They aren’t for freedom . Freedom of religion or NO RELIGION .. choice of lgbtq is freedom to be yourself. Choice is freedom unless u are harming others .. there’s no choice in the right unless you choose to think like them. Liberty is liberal. So is freedom.

  3. RITTENHOUSE LOOKED TO BE CRYING, BUT i DID NOT SEE ONE SALTY DROP ON HIS FACE. NOMINATIONS ARE IN THE OFFING FOR BEST ACTOR IN A COURT OF LAW.

  4. “Maybe the judge is a right-winger and not partial. Who knows. He has been accused of interjecting constantly in Rittenhouse’s favor.”

    “Maybe.” “Maybe?” Really? The same man who REFUSED to allow the prosecution to describe Rittenhouse’s VICTIMS with the “v-word” (and I don’t mean, “vagina”). And when one witness described Rittenhouse’s action as “murder,” the defense objected and the judge sustained.

    This judge IS BIASED BEYOND ANY DOUBT.

  5. Maybes are only for the loser. Ergo, let’s act a lot less like the loser Rittenhouse showed himself to be yesterday. Also, does anyone truly think that if he walks, he won’t do worse in future, possibly with a less sympathetic judge or jury?

  6. He was undoubtedly coached on how to play act crying. That punk needs to spend several years in a federal prison to get his mind right…

    • All that screwing up his face and he couldn’t squeeze out ONE singe fucking crocodile tear! (Remember, TV is now high def and if he’d really been crying we would have been able to see tears and his eyes reddening.) And despite his antics for months being a guest of honor at various gathering and the prosecution wanting to enter into evidence ONE photo of him in the “Free As Fuck” t-shirt he wore multiple times that fucking P.O.S. judge just couldn’t see how the attitude this murderous punk displayed so openly was relevant! You know what I’ like to see? VICTIMS (yeah, even though the judge won’t allow them to be called that the people this asshole shot were/are victims) would sneak in packets of red dye and balloons. Perhaps in packets of facial tissue. And use bottles of water they also carry into the courtroom to make some red dye filled balloons so that when the jury issues the acquittal this judge has furiously worked to engineer they nail that fucking judge (and Rittenhouse too) with them. Cover them in fake blood because the real thing is on their hands!

  7. One gets the feeling it is time for the left to do exactly what the cons are doing. We’re certainly not getting anywhere by being the adults in the room.

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