Posted on 11/02/2021 9:43:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One potential juror in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse wondered out loud during jury selection why anyone would need a “machine gun.” On August 25, 2020, Rittenhouse was carrying a legally owned semi-automatic Smith & Wesson M&P rifle. Another juror expressed how “scared” she was to be so close to where Rittenhouse lived. And still another said she couldn’t be impartial because her family wasn’t impartial. And so went jury selection in the most consequential American self defense case in years.
These people aren’t alone. According to now former Rittenhouse attorney, Robert Barnes, who did pre-trial polling, fully two-thirds of potential jurors in Kenosha believe the 18-year-old is guilty … of something, anything.
A pool of 150 potential jurors was rounded up to hear the case. The cattle call jury selection reportedly ended, according to the AP, out of view of cameras. Twenty jurors — 12 regulars and eight alternates — were expected to be retained and seated to hear the Rittenhouse case. The judge says there’s a 1% chance they could be sequestered.
BREAKING: A jury has been selected for the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people, two fatally, during a protest against racial injustice last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse's lawyers plan to argue that he acted in self-defense.
https://t.co/i6plqaTVou— The Associated Press (@AP) November 2, 2021
Opening statements are scheduled to get underway on Tuesday, and the trial is expected to take two weeks or more at the courthouse in Kenosha — the same courthouse rioters attempted to destroy during their violent days of rioting following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man wanted on a warrant for domestic violence and sexual assault.
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trial should be ANYWHERE but in that district!
Fixed.
I wonder how many are just trying to get out of jury duty.
Change of Venue should have taken place. Did the Defense agree to accept these people as Jurors? Big preventable mistake! The Pool has been poisoned.
I guess Kenoshans liked watching their city burn. They sound like Portlanders.
Many if not most of the 20 remaining jurors are gun owners.
I am not sure we could have gotten a better judge elsewhere.
I have watched most of the pre-trial hearings.
I’m sure the percentage is high
i thought the distributors of shots had immunity?
hehehe
let’s go kyle...er brandon.
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Opening prosecutor’s statement is mostly a very good argument in favor of the defense. ...?!?!?
It takes one to hang. But will someone have the courage knowing they will be doxxed? They will certainly have to move after the trial or perhaps be put into witness protection with new identity.
Did you happen to watch the trial of chauvin? His lawyer did an excellent job defending him, and by al. Rights. The jury should have exonerated him, but they were basically threatened by blm and a Tifa, so they voted to convict on all counts because blm made it cle a r that anything but a total guilty plea wpild result in violence.
The lawyer though Wwas spectacular. I watched some of it, and he was spot on. The jury however ignored everything he said.
Please clarify.
None of the Chauvin jurors had the courage after blm threatened them
Motion to change venue your honor.
5.56mm
Wonder how many people correctly decided that they want to be nowhere near being on that jury? You’ll wind up with modern BLM and Antifa KKK nightriders at your doorstep, lose your job, etc.
A prosecutor has to convince 12 people.
A defense attorney has to convince 1..................
Welcome to the Amerikan just-us system.
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