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Legal Experts Drop Bad News for Those Hoping for a Civil Rights Prosecution Against Rittenhouse
Western Journal ^ | November 29, 2021 | Grant Atkinson

Posted on 11/29/2021 10:13:58 PM PST by FryingPan101

After 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the deaths of two men who attacked him in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler immediately announced his request for action from the federal government.

Now, some legal experts say any prosecution by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department claiming Rittenhouse committed civil rights violations while defending himself would almost certainly fail.

And the chances of a successful civil lawsuit would likely be just as poor.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; darrellbrooks; darrellbrooksjr; darrellebrooks; darrellebrooksjr; grantatkinson; illinois; jerrynadler; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; lawsuits; newyork; selfdefense; westernjournal; wisconsin; wrongfuldeath
They intend to hound Kyle for the rest of his life.
1 posted on 11/29/2021 10:13:58 PM PST by FryingPan101
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To: FryingPan101

β€œ They intend to hound Kyle for the rest of his life. ”

After all the defamation lawsuits he should be able to move to a more free country , like Russia, or better yet he may be able to buy a country of his own.


2 posted on 11/29/2021 10:31:52 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He'll be Sandmann rich in a few years.

3 posted on 11/29/2021 10:33:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: FryingPan101
Leave this poor boy alone!


4 posted on 11/29/2021 10:36:13 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: FryingPan101
I have read several opinions from lawyers saying Wisconsin is one of many states that provide immunity from civil liability in cases of self defense.

There is a note in the Wisconsin State Legislature self defense statute:

939.48  Self-defense and defense of others.

"A person may employ deadly force against another, if the person reasonably believes that force is necessary to protect a 3rd-person or one's self from imminent death or great bodily harm, without incurring civil liability for injury to the other."
Kyle's Not Guilty verdict in the killing of Rosenbaum and Huber, and his shooting of Grosskreutz would seem to be a finding of legal self defense. But I ain't a lawyer.
5 posted on 11/29/2021 10:48:06 PM PST by ETCM
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To: FryingPan101

Trying to indict Rittenhouse on civil rights charges should prompt Rittenhouse to sue for defamation.


6 posted on 11/29/2021 10:49:38 PM PST by convoter2016
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To: FryingPan101

The state of the country today:

A male who defends himself with a legal firearm against a mob gets hounded and persecuted for life by karens and governement;

women who hire someone to murder their unborn baby for them, get parades and government support and defense


7 posted on 11/29/2021 10:56:00 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TonyM

He wants and expects to attend Arizona State next year.

I hope he sues the pants of all of them who defamed him


8 posted on 11/30/2021 1:06:50 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: FryingPan101

The Left is using the unlimited resources of government to outspend and harass.

This is to intimidate us peasants so we are afraid to use our fundamental rights. This is intended to cause terror.


9 posted on 11/30/2021 2:10:16 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: FryingPan101

Criminal democrats favorite weapon in this civil war is lawfare.

But make no mistake, we are at war.


10 posted on 11/30/2021 2:23:30 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SunkenCiv
He'll be Sandmann rich in a few years.

Maybe the two of them should go into business, on how to torque the jaws of all the scum sucking rats πŸ€ out there. 😁

11 posted on 11/30/2021 2:37:48 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: convoter2016

Oh, I think Rittenhouse’s lawyers are already working on the defamation suits.


12 posted on 11/30/2021 3:21:09 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: FryingPan101
They intend to hound Kyle for the rest of his life.

AND Kyle plans on building his first mansion on the backs of their future misery.

13 posted on 11/30/2021 3:51:06 AM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - - a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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To: FryingPan101

“They intend to hound Kyle for the rest of his life. “

Hard to believe that only 22% of the people reading the piece think Kyle will be allowed to live out his life in peace, free of the ‘Justice’ Department breathing down his neck.

I’ll help them here. Rosenbaum was a Jewish guy (at least his name is Jewish), so the case will be made that the crime was antisemitic...and back to trial goes Kyle. From the standpoint of the ‘Justice’ Department, what’s the downside?


14 posted on 11/30/2021 6:13:38 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Kyle is lucky it was a white guy he had to shoot.


15 posted on 11/30/2021 6:36:51 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Bobalu

wanna have some fun? bring a black marker and when you see one of them, color in a random dot somewhere... hilarity ensues


16 posted on 11/30/2021 10:07:27 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SunkenCiv
He'll be Sandmann rich in a few years.

Most likely

17 posted on 11/30/2021 10:11:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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