Rittenhouse: Not Guilty On All Counts
By Mitch Berg
Live feed.
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” .
November 19th, 2021 at 12:25 pm
Justice has been served. Now I hope Kyle goes all Nicolas Sandman on the scum bag media and Brandon!
November 19th, 2021 at 12:27 pm
Stupid f-ing PBS! What analysis of the verdict?! NOT GUILTY is NOT GUILTY! End of story! Sheeesh!
November 19th, 2021 at 12:29 pm
Boss – it was a live courtroom stream, not the PBS air feed.
November 19th, 2021 at 12:48 pm
Justice.
Now call the Covington kid’s lawyer and start getting some payback.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:05 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:18 pm
including the poor cross examination by the prosecution
Do I detect a scapegoat in the making?
November 19th, 2021 at 1:21 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:24 pm
Lol to the millionth power
November 19th, 2021 at 1:28 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:32 pm
Has the jury foreperson announced her book deal yet? When will she be on Oprah?
November 19th, 2021 at 1:34 pm
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?
November 19th, 2021 at 1:48 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:49 pm
“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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:58 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 1:59 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Justice done. A tragedy all around, though.
Now, when does the judge discipline the Constitutional transgressions by the prosecutor?
November 19th, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Justice done. A tragedy all around, though.
Now, when does the judge discipline the Constitutional transgressions by the prosecutor?
November 19th, 2021 at 2:02 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 2:11 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 2:11 pm
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.
November 19th, 2021 at 2:43 pm
golfdoc;
Yesterday, Rep. Matt Gaetz trolled the woke mob with the idea of bringing Kyle on as an intern.
November 19th, 2021 at 3:36 pm
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.”
November 19th, 2021 at 4:48 pm
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
November 19th, 2021 at 5:22 pm
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?
November 19th, 2021 at 5:46 pm
Where did Rosenbaum, Huber, and the other guy come from? Were they all Kenosha residents?
November 19th, 2021 at 5:56 pm
Meet CNN’s new owners
Nicholas Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse…
November 19th, 2021 at 6:23 pm
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 …
November 19th, 2021 at 6:43 pm
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.
November 20th, 2021 at 6:08 am
Kenoshs Kyle struts free. The 80 IQ scumbag, poverty pimp, pedophile communities and Hayduke (pardon the redunancy) are outraged.
November 20th, 2021 at 7:13 am
Still trying to figure out how journalism can label Rittenhouse a vigilante but not label Grosskreutze a vigilante.
November 20th, 2021 at 9:02 am
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.
November 21st, 2021 at 6:55 am
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
November 21st, 2021 at 11:13 am
^ 🚨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
November 21st, 2021 at 11:47 am
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”?
November 21st, 2021 at 12:57 pm
That’s great, Em.
Now do the bit from during the campaign.
Explain the, er, “growth in office”.
November 22nd, 2021 at 5:35 am
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.