The murder portion of the Rittenhouse trial is pretty much over.

[Sympthsical]

I'm not sure if anyone else is listening. But this is the victim with the gun (so, third person shot?) on the stand. I don't know if it's prosecution or defense asking him the question.

Attorney: "It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him . . . now your gun is down pointed at him, that he fired, right?"

Witness: "Correct."

All done.

All that's left is to hash out what's going to happen with the weapons charges.

[Devil Child]

1. Agreed

Not an effective witness for the prosecution.

[Calista241]

2. I'm not sure this case will survive a motion to dismiss. n/t

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

12. At this point, me neither.

n/t

[Thomas Hurt]

3. There were three people shot, two are dead, this only covers the one that lived...

did the others have guns?

[Dr. Strange]

4. Nope.

This was the only one of the three that had a gun.

[Sympthsical]

6. No, but

The first one shot was clearly the aggressor. There is video.

Now this one was clearly pointing a loaded weapon at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse fired.

Right now, the defense is just playing with this witness, leading him straight into a trap.

The murder charges are done.

[blm]

9. And the 2nd person shot doesn't matter, eh Symp?

[Sympthsical]

13. Everyone involved matters, but the law does, too.

The second person shot assaulted Rittenhouse with a skateboard and tried to pull his gun away from him - again, on video. I think he was trying to be heroic. He thought there was an active shooter. He was trying to stop it.

But we're dealing with what the law of self-defense in all this.

The jury isn't going to convict.

Don't lash out at me. I didn't do it. I'm just observing. It's sad all around. Rittenhouse should've never been there. And he still has to face weapons charges here that seem like he's 100% guilty of.

[Amishman]

15. even the weapons charges are a complicated issue

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Wisconsin statute 948.60 is a clumsy law due to how it was written and amended.

The original law 948.60 (2) is pretty clear

Any person under 18 years of age who possesses or goes armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Years later it was weakened by 948.60 (3) which are several exceptions to this. (3) (c) says this

This section applies only to a person under 18 years of age who possesses or is armed with a rifle or a shotgun if the person is in violation of s. 941.28 or is not in compliance with ss. 29.304 and 29.593. This section applies only to an adult who transfers a firearm to a person under 18 years of age if the person under 18 years of age is not in compliance with ss. 29.304 and 29.593 or to an adult who is in violation of s. 941.28.

941.28 prohibits short barreled rifles and shotguns, which Rittenhouse's gun was not. 29.304 and 29.593 are both about hunting and not relevant.

The defense tried to have this charged tossed pre-trial, but the judge said the law is unclear and would leave it up to the jury.

[Amishman]

11. agreed, too much video that backs the defense

and the prosecution hasn't even rested yet.

Its more than just the prosecution's witnesses are failing to be convincing of the prosecution's case, one by one on cross examination (particularly when confronted with video clips from that night) they are affirming the defense's narrative.

[Mugu]

5. The prosecution never wanted to win this case.

[Bettie]

7. Right wing white boy

of course they don't want him to have any penalties.

[RobinA]

17. That's Not A Fair

assessment based on the evidence. Have you seen any of the video? As stupid as Rittenhouse’s actions were, of the people he shot, one chased him down, one pulled a gun, and one hit him with a skateboard. All were white. This is not a good case for the prosecution on the facts.

[Sympthsical]

8. We shouldn't start that

This witness is absolutely burying himself.

[jcmaine72]

23. He sure did.

You don't usually see someone self-destruct like this on the stand outside of TV show.

Didn't the prosecution at least run down the list of possible/probable questions he'd be asked to help Grosskruetz prepare?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

10. Yep, listened to the until they went on lunch

That cross examination before lunch absolutely destroyed the prosecution. And the prosecutions case was already shaky. This case is over. And Grosskreutz's civil case is gone as well.

[Sympthsical]

14. You know his civil attorney had words during lunch

He tried to recover when they resumed, but it just got worse and worse for him.

[Hoyt]

16. Jeez. No wonder prosecution took forever to bring this to trial.

Despise the punkassed, gun-toting Pissant, but prosecution was never going to overcome reasonable doubt when the first victim chased Rittenhouse and the second one pulled his own gun. The 3rd victim is probably best case, but it’ll be too late to overcome reasonable doubt.

Sucks, and officials need to ban gunz on the streets, especially at protests.

[manicdem]

18. Bad case

It's almost as if the prosecutor is defending more than prosecuting. Case should've never been made. It's embarrassing.

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. I knew the punk would walk

The RW will be insufferable.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. lol

Enjoy your stay!

[MustLoveBeagles]

26. I missed the poo flinging 💩

Oh well.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. It was some stinky RW loon stuff too

[Tomconroy]

20. I haven't followed it but I read in a CNN article that the

Prosecutor told the jury that Rittenhouse had chased the first person who was shot in the opening statement. The aerial video apparently showed precisely the opposite and the state's investigator admitted this on the witness stand. Something is clearly way off with the state's case.
I did try to break it gently to DU by saying several times that I thought Rittenhouse had hired a very good lawyer (I saw some of his opening statement).
If you all are right there is going to be an uproar here. All retired criminal defense lawyers to the barricades!

[Torchlight]

21. I'll wait until it's over

and even when the verdict comes down, since I just haven't invested near as much emotion into this as you guys have, I'll just shrug my shoulders, pour another cuppa and hug my family. Reading a singular tea leaf isn't enough for me to get excited or disappointed (if that's the desired result) over.

[Tomconroy]

22. I didn't invest anything in it. I assumed he shot people and there

Was no way he could pull off three separate self defense claims. Then a week ago I got a little curious and watched a couple of the videos.
And when a prosecutor out and out lies in an opening statement.........

[Patton French]

28. Wow!

I wonder if they knew he’d say that before they put him on the stand.