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1 posted on 11/10/2021 11:20:46 AM PST by RandFan
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Pretty damned good I think.

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2 posted on 11/10/2021 11:21:21 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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With prejudice, meaning no retrial.


3 posted on 11/10/2021 11:22:03 AM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Why are they only asking for a mistrial?? From what I’ve read, sounds like they might could ask for a directed verdict of not-guilty or a dismissal with prejudice.


4 posted on 11/10/2021 11:22:28 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Mistrial? WHy?
That just means Rittenhouse has go through all of this again.


7 posted on 11/10/2021 11:22:38 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Why not a dismissal and a request to investigate counsel?


8 posted on 11/10/2021 11:23:42 AM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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Judge is yelling at the prosecutor again right now.


10 posted on 11/10/2021 11:23:57 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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There should never have been a trial at all in the first place.


11 posted on 11/10/2021 11:24:22 AM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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Somebody apparently recorded a video of the jurors.

Based on my extensive experience watching TV crime shows, I’d say that is grounds for a mistrial.


12 posted on 11/10/2021 11:24:33 AM PST by enumerated
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It appears that the Prosecution is deliberately trying to invoke a mistrial because this one is going so badly.

A mistrial will give the prosecution a second chance at prosecuting Kyle, and erase Grosskreutz’s prior testimony that Kyle didn’t shoot him until he pointed his own gun at Kyle.

Defense called the Prosecutor out on this ploy, and wants a mistrial with prejudice so that there won’t be another trial.


13 posted on 11/10/2021 11:25:01 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I think the prosecution wants it too, based on their actions.


14 posted on 11/10/2021 11:25:16 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (“There are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.” -Thomas A. Edison )
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Why would they do that, when they’ve had a lot of things swing their way?


17 posted on 11/10/2021 11:26:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
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That’s why they put him on the stand. They wanted to get his story out there, humanize him, and then let the prosecution screw up yet again, then launch that mistrial missile they had waiting in the wings.


18 posted on 11/10/2021 11:27:09 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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A mistrial is preferred because of the possibility that the jurors would be afraid NOT to convict. There are already vague threats to the jury and people taking their picture.


22 posted on 11/10/2021 11:29:16 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Seems as if judge has sustained prosecution’s objection to defense motion for mistrial.


31 posted on 11/10/2021 11:38:17 AM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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rittenhouse better sue the whole kit and kaboodle for this... state, feds, media for defamation... lefty, the two dead antifa estates... everyone.


32 posted on 11/10/2021 11:38:22 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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A mistrial is without prejudice. The defense has presented a stellar defense with a great judge presiding. They cannot top this and there is no guarantee of getting the same judge in a new trial. Make the motion for a directed verdict and, if that fails, let it go to jury. And if that fails, use all the errors that would have warranted a mistrial on an appeal to overturn the verdict.


37 posted on 11/10/2021 11:41:21 AM PST by chuckee ( from front pages)
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Although I now have serious questions about Lin Wood, wouldn’t he have had fun with this trial?


40 posted on 11/10/2021 11:43:08 AM PST by ryderann
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The defense always asks for dismissal or mistrial. Doesn’t mean they get it.


52 posted on 11/10/2021 11:51:20 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Every single person involved in bringing this to trial in the first place MUST be imprisoned.


62 posted on 11/10/2021 12:03:03 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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They should have asked for case to be dismissed right after the prosecution finished. They did not make a case. They could only go downhill from there.

This prosecutor questioning him now is a real smarmy piece of sh*t

“You WENT there with a gun because wanted to KILL PEOPLE, didn’t you?”


63 posted on 11/10/2021 12:12:20 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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