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Judge dismisses weapons charge at Rittenhouse murder trial
Yahoo! News ^ | 15/11/21 | SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI

Posted on 11/15/2021 8:26:06 AM PST by Eleutheria5

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To: BigEdLB

I guess you live in a Demonrat Blue State. Anyone who is not a felon can own a machine gun here in Alabama. The transferable ones have been made expensive by more Demonrat legislation (1986). I’ve shot many machine guns; you can rent them at the range about 10 miles from my place.


41 posted on 11/15/2021 10:31:10 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The ADA said that because Kyle brought a gun, he is exclided from using the self defense claim.

That’s not true - and why isn’t the defense objecting?


42 posted on 11/15/2021 10:34:29 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Eleutheria5

This removes the last chance for the hapless prosecutors. Some on the other side had held out the thought that while no sane jury at this point would convict KR on the big charges, the jury might have responded to the massive MSM/left/rioter pressure to Get Rittenhouse by finding on this one technical charge.

BLMAntifa marxist scum have already declared their intent to repeat the violence (until regular people surrender their right to self-defense, then it really gets bad). If you live in a city, be ready.


43 posted on 11/15/2021 10:36:38 AM PST by No.6
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

You caught that, too. The author clarified farther down but what’s said was said.


44 posted on 11/15/2021 10:40:23 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Eleutheria5

45 posted on 11/15/2021 10:40:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Mostly peaceful demonstrations coming soon, to a downtown near you.”

Unlikely.

They have spent their wad. Sure, they’ll try (with media help), but there’s no more will for it. Especially when they know thousands of Kyle’s await them.

Additionally, WI law allows anyone over 16 to have a long gun in their possession. And the proxy buy was never charged.

One charge dropped, and he’ll be acquitted of all others.

Kyle Rittenhouse has become an American hero.


46 posted on 11/15/2021 10:41:10 AM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Michael.SF.; GOPJ; Chode; DoughtyOne

Or the prosecutors, hoping for something much harsher, wanted to go for broke.


47 posted on 11/15/2021 10:50:07 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Michael.SF.

This was the one count I thought he would be convicted on.


It was frivolous. It did not apply to Rittenhouse (He was neither hunting, nor was it a short-barreled weapon), and per the judge the judge only kept it in because it was plausible in theory that the prosecution would submit evidence of how it was an illegal firearm. They never did, so the judge dismissed it.


48 posted on 11/15/2021 10:54:22 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

If they convict him, the concept of us protecting ourselves
in public no longer exists.


49 posted on 11/15/2021 10:58:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Eleutheria5
After prosecutors conceded on Monday that Rittenhouse’s rifle was not short-barreled, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the charge.

I'm guessing the judge was giving the prosecution every chance to back this claim up, which was impossible for anyone who owns a ruler and the judge knew that. Dismissing the lesser charge at this point focuses the jury on the ones that really count and takes away their ability to convict on a lesser charge as an out.

50 posted on 11/15/2021 10:58:20 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2harddrive

He probably did not know that himself.


Rittenhouse most certainly did. There was long testimony in the trial discussing his choice of firearm and why, due to his age, he did not obtain a pistol (he could not legally do so).


51 posted on 11/15/2021 11:02:09 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Michael44.

The defense objected all over the place in every hearing that brought it up. The judge even expressed dubiousness over it, but gave the prosecution opportunity to present evidence of such a violation (which had to include either hunting without a valid license with the weapon, or the weapon being short-barreled), but the prosecution never did...so, done.


52 posted on 11/15/2021 11:04:35 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: wastedyears

They left out the part where the police threatened to mace him if he didn’t move on, so he went to Ill town police and turned himself in.


53 posted on 11/15/2021 11:05:52 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Eleutheria5

The prosecutor demonstrates his extreme idiocy in his closing arguments.


54 posted on 11/15/2021 11:08:14 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Kevmo

But there is a chance that it could backfire for the defense. The jury might have gone guilty on that charge. Now, there is a chance that they might find him guilty of the next charge up, which is much more serious. That’s going from a misdemeanor to a felony.


55 posted on 11/15/2021 11:13:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

This might be the biggest trial in the last 50 years where a white citizens kills white criminals ...

And an aside:

I wonder if there were any murders in Chicago last month... anyone know? And if so, will any of them will make the ‘show trial’ circuit level.


56 posted on 11/15/2021 11:18:50 AM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - but a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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To: DoughtyOne
If they convict him, the concept of us protecting ourselves in public no longer exists.

One would think, but the left wants to be able to shoot unarmed Ashli Babbit and claim it was "a last resort" while punishing their ideological adversaries for self defense.

57 posted on 11/15/2021 11:19:18 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Can’t the feds pull the “deprived of civil rights” card out of their butts like they often do? Thus making a mockery of double jeopardy?

Yes. Those are different charges by a different sovereign, so they're not barred by double jeopardy.

58 posted on 11/15/2021 11:20:45 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: backwoods-engineer

I live in the Peoples Republic of Gavin Newsom. How’d you guess?


59 posted on 11/15/2021 11:22:04 AM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yes, and there’s really no comparison here at all, as far as
a life threatening situation is concerned.

That officer should be up on charges. If the public have to
submit to a trial, so should this guy.


60 posted on 11/15/2021 11:23:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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