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In reply to the discussion: The Rittenhouse verdict should not have been a surprise [View all]localroger
(3,625 posts)...based on the absolute technical letter of the law. A lot of the stuff Rittenhouse did probably should have been illegal but isn't, and some of it won't be for a long time if ever. I suspect the long deliberation was because of a few holdouts who wanted to convict him of something, anything, and they had to go through each charge point by point establishing that no, there really wasn't any basis under the instructions they had been given for a conviction. The defense's case may have been infuriating, but every one of their points was valid. Meanwhile, the prosecution overcharged and made other mistakes, like not measuring the barrel of the gun before filing the weapons charge. And as noted elsewhere, the media were worse than useless.