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Rittenhouse: Not Guilty On All Counts

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Count 1 (Rosenbaum): Not guilty

Count 2 (McGuinness) Not guilty

Count 3 (Jump Kick Guy) Not guilty

Count 4 (Huber) Not guilty

Count 5 (Grosskreutz) Not guilty

Strap in, Kenosha. It’s gonna be a bumpy night. :

And here’s hoping Rittenhouse follows Nick Sandman into civil court.

UPDATE: Judge Schroeder after the Jury left the room: “Motion of the defense is granted, the charges are dismissed with prejudice. Mr. Rittenhouse is released from the obligation of his bond”.

That was what you call “bouncing the rubble” .

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36 responses to “Rittenhouse: Not Guilty On All Counts”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Justice has been served. Now I hope Kyle goes all Nicolas Sandman on the scum bag media and Brandon!

  2. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Stupid f-ing PBS! What analysis of the verdict?! NOT GUILTY is NOT GUILTY! End of story! Sheeesh!

  3. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Boss – it was a live courtroom stream, not the PBS air feed.

  4. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    Justice.
    Now call the Covington kid’s lawyer and start getting some payback.

  5. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    Two things stand out in my opinion: Mr Rittenhouse’s testimony, which the jury believed, including the poor cross examination by the prosecution. And Wisconsin law requiring finding no self defense beyond a reasonable doubt. As such — the verdict is not surprising.

  6. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    including the poor cross examination by the prosecution

    Do I detect a scapegoat in the making?

  7. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    jdm, calling Rittenhouse guilty was fake but accurate. He was guilty alright, the prosecution just has a messaging problem, just like the democrats. People were just too stupid to understand them.

  8. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    Lol to the millionth power

  9. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    oops, that was supposed to be lol’ing at one of the troll’s quotes.

    “that the jury believed”

    They were dumb, in other words.

  10. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Has the jury foreperson announced her book deal yet? When will she be on Oprah?

  11. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    What’s taking Lesko Brandon’s feds so long? Why haven’t they arrested him yet, to try him for violating the civil rights of the dead criminals?

  12. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Poor cross examination by the prosecution does not explain why most of the prosecution witnesses actually fessed up to the fact that Rittenhouse was acting pretty clearly in self-defense. That factor is “prosecution was so set on taking a young man through a living H*** of wrongful trial that they ignored clear signs their case was garbage.”

    There is probably some plausible deniability for the ADA and the prosecutor’s office (and others) because there were multiple days of deliberations, but as far as I can tell, the ADA needs to lose his law license, and Rittenhouse has a great case for damages for a garbage case being brought to court.

  13. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    “And Wisconsin law requiring finding no self defense beyond a reasonable doubt.” That’s an interesting twist. Let’s examine it step by step.

    The State must provide evidence to persuade a jury the Defendant commited the crime. The jury can’t be cop out with “more likely than not he did it,” or even with “well, there’s pretty clear and convincing evidence he did it,” but must be persuaded to say “I’m convinced he did it, no reasonable doubt about it.”

    Did Defendant kill this guy? Sure. Case over? Not so fast. Defendant offered evidence he acted in self-defense. Evidence of self-defense creates reasonable doubt about his guilt. The State must overcome that reasonable doubt to obtain a conviction.

    Emery objects to that procedure. When he says “Wisconsin law requiring finding no self defense beyond a reasonable doubt,” he means the State should be able to convict with less evidence in a self-defense case than in any other criminal case, less than assault or shoplifting or overtime parking.

    Making it harder for people to defend their lives from criminals benefits criminals. It’s the wrong direction for civil society to take.

  14. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    Oh good defamation hot takes to go along with the criminal law hot takes. Delightful.

    I will have a negative level of surprise if Mr Rittenhouse becomes a cop.

  15. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Sorry, but when both of the prosecution’s witnesses and the third assailant say that he shot in self defense, then, both independent AND government videos bear those testimonies out, then it’s pretty hard to say that it wasn’t.

  16. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    Justice done. A tragedy all around, though.

    Now, when does the judge discipline the Constitutional transgressions by the prosecutor?

  17. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    Justice done. A tragedy all around, though.

    Now, when does the judge discipline the Constitutional transgressions by the prosecutor?

  18. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Mitch: Spends a week pointing out that the left is projecting its views of the world onto Rittenhouse and the case.

    Emery: Projects his views of the world onto Rittenhouse and the case.

  19. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    I don’t know if there will be some defamation lawsuits, but there ought to be. Kyle’s life will never be the same, and not in a good way. The list of offenders is long and goes all the way to the White House. I wonder if the doctor performing President Brandon’s colonoscopy found Joe’s head up around the hepatic flexure.

  20. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    I don’t know if there will be some defamation lawsuits, but there ought to be. Kyle’s life will never be the same, and not in a good way. The list of offenders is long and goes all the way to the White House. I wonder if the doctor performing President Brandon’s colonoscopy found Joe’s head up around the hepatic flexure.

  21. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    golfdoc;
    Yesterday, Rep. Matt Gaetz trolled the woke mob with the idea of bringing Kyle on as an intern.

  22. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    This is what we were told before the trial.
    Rittenhouse carried a rifle across a state line in to Kenosha, where he had no business, to shoot black people.
    This is what the trial revealed.
    Rittenhouse was in Kenosha when the riot started, staying with a friend. This was because Rittenhouse has a lot of family and part time job Kenosha.

    If you are surprised at the verdict it is because you did not heed the words of Nassim Nicholas Taleb.:
    “When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

  23. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Is this a good time to start a discussion on whether the law should allow lethal force in defense of property? I’m thinking of these:

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/roof-koreans

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8759873/Minneapolis-welcomes-armed-group-black-men-patrolling-streets-death-George-Floyd.html

  24. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    A question asked multiple times during the trial, “Why was he there?”

    Well, why was anyone there?

    If the cops, the politicians and the media were doing their job, no one would have been there.

    Having said that, and the all-around tragedy not withstanding, can we all agree that one should never bring a skate board to a gunfight?

  25. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Where did Rosenbaum, Huber, and the other guy come from? Were they all Kenosha residents?

  26. jimf Avatar
    jimf

    Meet CNN’s new owners
    Nicholas Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse…

  27. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    Kyle Rittenhouse Sentenced To 45 Years Of CPAC Appearances
    https://www.theonion.com/kyle-rittenhouse-sentenced-to-45-years-of-cpac-appearan-1848090682

    Sad but true …

  28. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Time to prosecute Binger. The number of times he put his finger on the scales reminds me of Mike Nifong, and it may yet ruin Mr. Rittenhouse’s life. Disbar, prosecute.

  29. Bill Peterson's chin twat Avatar
    Bill Peterson’s chin twat

    Kenoshs Kyle struts free. The 80 IQ scumbag, poverty pimp, pedophile communities and Hayduke (pardon the redunancy) are outraged.

  30. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Still trying to figure out how journalism can label Rittenhouse a vigilante but not label Grosskreutze a vigilante.

  31. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    But that this was self defense was proven in the trial. The jury was unanimous. So no one should be calling him a “murderer”, because it wasn’t murder. Murder is a legal term and has meaning and that isn’t what he did.

    This wasn’t a peaceful protest, this was a riot. Cars were burning. Gunshots are going off. Two sides are cursing at each other. Threatening each other. And then someone charges at you.

    If we discredit the judgement of our courts the party is no different from the one that discredits the institutions of science.

  32. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff:
    Readers of the Times may think they know how conservatives are reacting after reading this. In fact, they will have little sense of what conservatives consider the real issues: for example, false claims by the media and candidate Biden that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist, false or misleading claims that he had “crossed state lines,” and the failure of Gov. Evers to keep order.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-new-york-times-does-the-rittenhouse-aftermath.php

  33. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    ^ 🚨BDS

    “I stand by what the jury has concluded. The jury system works and we have to abide by it, I know that we’re not going to heal our country’s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law,” ~ President Biden

  34. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    So it’s totally BDS now that Biden has said something close to sane and not defamatory, politically divisive, or self destructive?

    Only if you’re memory is super short.

    Is E* like the main character in the film “Momento”?

  35. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    That’s great, Em.

    Now do the bit from during the campaign.

    Explain the, er, “growth in office”.

  36. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Um, Emery, you must have missed the follow up statement from Brandon’s handlers, I mean the White House, that said “the President is angered by the verdict.”

    Gotta make sure the drooling sycophants don’t get triggered.

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