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Rittenhouse trial update

They're on lunch because the Judge is so disgusted.

So the Defense brought in Grosskuertz's friend who said Grosskuertz wanted to unload his entire gun into Kyle. He predictably claimed Grosskuertz never said that and he was just trying to defend him online. This was fine. It meant next to nothing. It was mostly to get it admitted into evidence in front of the Jury.

Then the Defense brought in the Indian brother who ran the car lot again, showed a video of him lying about how much damage there was at his car lot, and this didn't mean a lot. It was clear he was originally lying. He had a reason prepared to try justifying it. He's an idiot. It was just to discredit him further.

And then they put Kyle on the stand which I thought was madness but this Prosecution is so incompetent it's actually no big deal.

Kyle Rittenhouse was completely reasonable, explained things clearly, and was very believable. He broke out in hysterics, having a panic attack after starting to talk about Rosenbaum and his asshole idiot friendly cornering him with Rosenberg's friend holding a pistol. Rosenbaum directly threatened him saying "I'm going to fucking kill you when you're alone." Directly to him.

So after they take a break because he literally couldn't even speak, he came back and continued his testimony. He said after he shot Rosenbaum, people were screaming to get his ass and stuff, so he was in constant fear for his life. And then he was prepped very well and testified he only shot when he felt he was in danger of death, and all the footage and testimony reflects that.

The cross examination was the big deal here. And the Prosecutor was such a complete asshole the whole time. Like, aggressive with the witness because he's not reading the room right at all and is likely excited and pissed off. He asked Kyle a bunch of questions and Kyle is actively correcting him on gun laws and telling him about gun laws in Illinois as well, and Kyle gave great answers overall.

And then the Prosecutor, Binger, proceeds to tell Kyle Rittenhouse that he didn't speak until now and tried to paint it as cowardice or hiding something. The Judge dismissed everyone because this is a MASSIVE VIOLATION OF THE LAW. Binger is a seasoned Prosecutor and he knows very well that Kyle has fifth amendment rights and used them. And he tried to paint it as him being a coward to paint the Jury. The Judge told Binger that he was being unethical and that this could be sent for mistrial.

Bizarrely, when they came back Binger also tried to hit Kyle with claims of HE WAS VIOLENT BECAUSE OF VIDEO GAMES. I shit you not, he spent minutes talking about Call of Duty and Kyle was just like "Yeah but video games aren't real life." Binger looks like such a complete piece of shit, slimy asshole by this point. He also showed Kyle's terrible TikTok account name, 4doorsmorewhores, which he may actually deserve to go to jail for. I should say that the Defense prepped him for cross examination INCREDIBLY well. Major props to them.

And then Binger makes Kyle list all the things he can't use his gun for, and then he tries to bring up the comments that Kyle made before this about wanting to shoot rioters. The Judge immediately shut it down and sent them back. Binger CANNOT DO THIS because they ruled nothing from anyone's past can be used in this trial aside from that day. And the Defense has been reasonable about it but Binger tried to do this THREE TIMES already and the Judge warned him every time. So he knew he couldn't just do this. And this is overtly undermining the Judge and he said it to get it in the Jury's mind. Binger tried to argue and act smug and shitty with the Judge and the Judge, rightfully, told him right the fuck out. He can be disbarred for all of this he's done today. The Judge was having none of it. He gave him a final warning. This can be mistrialed and the Defense said if they do it again they're going to move for mistrial with prejudice (meaning it cannot ever be tried again) and then the Judge said he would absolutely grant it.

Binger continues to flounder and fail to get Kyle on literally anything. Just being spanked by this kid on the rules and what was going on. And then eventually he spent forever about bullets, with Binger outright saying that hollow point bullets cannot go through a target, implying Kyle should have used hollow point bullets. The Judge stopped Binger and told the jury "hollow point bullets can go through targets, you are misleading this jury" and then he sent everyone to lunch.

Binger should be disbarred for this. Completely unprofessional and unconstitutional behavior. I doubt he will be because lol the system we have in place to prevent a punishment for this.

This feels like it's playing to make the Judge look unreasonable to people, but his outrage was more than reasonable. This fucking prick is the slimiest piece of shit.

I have no idea what happens from here. The only thing I can predict is that Binger will continue to provide the most impotent cross examination against a witness they should be burying into the ground right now. I can't say if he does anything to force a mistrial though.

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