I agree. He wasn’t scared of black people as long as he had a gun and support from the white supremacists.
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Is the local (read Kenosha) pressure to acquit or convict?
Don’t know. I’m in Pennsylvania.
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So, fear is what brought him to there?
Curious to know, the Daily Mail had an article on the death threat emails the judge has received and the judge disclosed that there was an attempt to video the jurors.
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So that Rittenhouse would not be convicted on any charges. He could face federal charges on arranging a straw purchase across state lines.
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Found the law and posted on a different thread.
Yup, Wisconsin specifically says that someone is not in violation of that part of the law if they’re carrying a rifle or a shotgun.
Notwithstanding that that’s about the dumbest law I’ve seen in a long time, this looks like a colossal fuckup by the prosecution.
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Intent would probably be difficult to prove, but I expect her to be included in civil lawsuits.
By the way, now would be a good time for the MSM to report on how close gofundme drives get toward actual legal expenses for expensive cases.
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I think this judge has some poor takes on the applicable law, but I’ll reserve judgement on the jury instructions on self-defense because I haven’t read them. It should just be a straightforward application of the statute, however. And my experience is that the jury instructions do very much matter. I would expect the prosecution to walk the jury through the instructions in some detail during closing, aiming to show the jury how the evidence established that Rittenhouse’s use of force was not reasonable, that he provoked the situation, that he did not exhaust his options before shooting, etc.
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No, because he had a gun and the support of white supremacists.
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So, if he was not in fear how are his actions fearful of black people?
Can anyone explain to me why the judge dismisses the various smaller charges?
It seems those are the ones he is indisputably guilty of. He had a gun not allowed people under 18, his age was under 18. Guilty.
So - why dismissed? What would the legal reason be?
Short-Barrel-Rifles and sawed-off shotguns are controlled by the Feds under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (and subsequent amendments), this is the unconstitutional ban that prevents you from also owning fully-automatic weapons, hand grenades and other fun toys.
So Wisconsin can set different rules on when it’s legal or not to possess a regular rifle, but has to defer to the Feds when it’s something under their purview.
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Think the judge may be more in favor of “cardiac arrest individual”.
Regardless of whether the cardiac arrest is prefaced on receipt of a dose of lead.
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They weren’t. My first response was literally to agree with you that he was not scared. He went there to provoke a confrontation and he got it.
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Ah, ok, provocation. Sorry I misunderstood.
You meant to say you hope the prosecution uses those terms right?
Republicans: “Free Kyle Rittenhouse!”
Also Republicans: “Jail Alec Baldwin!”
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Rittenhouse seemed to be motivated by the revenge fantasy common among gun nuts. In the video excluded from evidence by Judge Schroeder, Rittenhouse said in a voiceover about people that he assumed were shoplifting in Kenosha that : “Brah, I wish I had my f—ing AR. l’d start shooting rounds at them,”
Kyle Rittenhouse dreamed about shooting people days before Kenosha: video (nypost.com)
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