Posted on 11/01/2021 9:17:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mere hours before jury selection began in the self-defense trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a key defense attorney who put together a “dream team” of jury selection experts announced he was off the case. Robert Barnes says the change in the defense team means someone is “deliberately sabotaging Kyle’s defense.”
Kyle Rittenhouse is the 17-year-old who shot three people, two of whom died, at the Kenosha riots in August of 2020. He claims the shootings were in self-defense.
PJ Media will provide daily coverage of the trial.
After eight months of affiliation with the Rittenhouse case, Barnes, a nationally acclaimed defense attorney, said lead attorney Mark Richards won’t share jury information or allow any of Barnes’s 20-person team of experts into the courtroom to observe the jury selection.
Barnes says he was promised that he and his team would be involved in the actual jury selection. The team includes Barnes’s hand-picked “multiple body language people, multiple data people” and jury selection experts.
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Who knew.
It’s been asserted to me by people in the field that the verdict is 90% determined once the jury has been selected.
Courtroom Lawyers and their big egos. Gotta be stroked.
Praying for Kyle to win this one.
the fact that he is still in jeopardy says his team isn’t a defense team. It is a government team designed to make it appear that he had a trial.
Implodes?
Yeah. Ok.
We don’t actually have a “justice” system any more. We have a “legal system”.
Right, wrong, and the letter of the law no longer matter and haven’t since before OJ.
It’s the STORY one side can get the hand-picked and carefully groomed jury to believe. Nothing else matters.
The most important thing to do in a criminal case is to mark the record with multiple re-entry points on appeal. Fight for every piece of evidence and make the Judge decide and explain, on the record, his reasoning for admitting or excluding a particular piece of evidence. You may not get to an appeal, but if you do and you didn’t mark the record, you got nothing on that issue - it will not be part of the appeal. The Arbury case seems to be similar in that regard. Defense counsel there moved for a perfected record - a microscopic detailing of the case as it progresses which is very important for appellate review.
I wouldn’t want “multiple body language people, multiple data people” and “jury selection experts” in the courtroom either.
Those types are mostly parasites whose only contribution is to taint the process.
I know a lot of people around here like Barnes, but in my view he’s a self-aggrandizing charlatan. He has very little criminal defense experience and doesn’t even include criminal law as an area of expertise on his website. Yes, he’s successfully defended a couple of high profile tax cases, but that’s a whole different scenario than this. If I were Kyle’s lead attorney, I wouldn’t want Barnes or any of his people anywhere near the courtroom. And, of course, this action wouldn’t have been taken without Kyle’s consent.
Yep.
Mom’s paying for them now so she should have a say.
Looks like her donation site is being messed with. Invalid SSL cert and usually I can go forward by making an ‘exception’ but not here; https://freekyleusa.com/
Very unclear as to who left and why. Poor writing. Sounds more like click bait reporting than a factual explanatory account
Jury selection is everything
Just ask OJ
Jury intimidation by blm and a Tifa members happened in the Chauvin case, the intimidation swzyed anyone who was convinced by the very capable defense team that Chauvin did nothing g wrong.
Chauvin didn’t get a fair trial, and it will be un,ikely. That Kyle will either. Look for the do estimate terrorists blm and antifa to start threatening violence if Kyle, found innocent, or It looks like he might be found innocent.
The defense did an excellent job in the Chauvin case, but because the domestic terrorists threatened the jurors, they found him guilty of all counts. He wasn’t guilty of even one, and the defense proved it spectacularly. UT it didn’t matter in th end because of,jury tampering by the domestic terrorists blm and antifa.
The Arbuthnot case is just now in jury selection
IF you were the defendant you’d want them
Speaking of Billy Squire...
That dude’s career exploded after awful MTV video.
Hello Mr. Barnes! What brings you to FR?
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