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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

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The judge at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial on Monday dismissed a count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, a misdemeanor that had appeared to be among the likeliest of the charges to net a conviction for prosecutors.

The judge then launched into 36 pages of legal instructions to the jury, explaining the charges and the laws of self-defense. After that, the two sides were expected to deliver closing arguments, the final word before the jury was to begin deliberations.

Rittenhouse, 18, killed two men and wounded a third in the summer of 2020 during a turbulent protest against racial injustice, in a case that has underscored bitter division in the U.S. over guns, protests and law and order.

He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge against him, first-degree intentional homicide.

The underage weapon charge was punishable by up to nine months in jail.

There is no dispute that Rittenhouse was 17 when he carried an AR-style semi-automatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha and used it.

But the defense argued that Wisconsin law had an exception that could be read to clear Rittenhouse. After prosecutors conceded on Monday that Rittenhouse’s rifle was not short-barreled, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the charge.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Illinois; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; dismissal; illinois; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; kylerittenhousetrial; politicalprisoner; rittenhouse; showtrial; weapons; wisconsin
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Mostly peaceful demonstrations coming soon, to a downtown near you.
1 posted on 11/15/2021 8:26:06 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Democrats declare you guilty if you don’t let them riot and arson without consequences.


2 posted on 11/15/2021 8:30:49 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Eleutheria5

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4012878/posts


3 posted on 11/15/2021 8:30:59 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Riot (burning down businesses and setting fire to cop cars) = Turbulent protest against racial injustice,


4 posted on 11/15/2021 8:32:51 AM PST by BushCountry (Fun Fact: Goods made in America do not get stuck on cargo ships.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hey, they can burn the nearby city to the ground where I live. Heck, it it is infested with Liberals anyway.

Just don’t come to my neighborhood.


5 posted on 11/15/2021 8:33:41 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: BushCountry

And an opportunity to get a new TV or Nike shoes. It is social justice after all.


6 posted on 11/15/2021 8:39:45 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Eleutheria5

Christmas is right around the corner, why buy gifts for the yutes when you can take them for free?

Gonna be interesting watching the butterballs with their Butterballs running out of the local stores too.


7 posted on 11/15/2021 8:44:52 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Eleutheria5

This was the one count I thought he would be convicted on. Looking better for Kyle!


8 posted on 11/15/2021 8:46:22 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Abathar

Didn’t think of that. I get mine from a turkey farm down the road. Now that would be a sight!


9 posted on 11/15/2021 8:50:02 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Eleutheria5

Discussion of self defense instruction.

If self defense on charge is found should jury ignore lessor offenses.

prosecutor objects.


10 posted on 11/15/2021 8:50:25 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Eleutheria5

The judge made the only call he could make on this. The process of instructing a jury is about proving clear, unambiguous instructions about what is necessary for a conviction on each count. The lack of clarity in the statute itself made that an impossibility.


11 posted on 11/15/2021 8:51:08 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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“Rittenhouse, 18, killed two men and wounded a third in the summer of 2020.”

He was 17 and defending himself.

What part or the truth did you lying scum bags miss?


12 posted on 11/15/2021 8:51:09 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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Discussion of self defense instruction. If self defense on charge is found should jury ignore lessor offenses. prosecutor objects.

Awesome, and correct. Good news is that if the jury acquits, the prosecution cannot appeal the instructions, or any other alleged error committed by the judge. That's the end of it.

13 posted on 11/15/2021 8:55:13 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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“And an opportunity to get a new TV or Nike shoes. It is social justice after all.”

= Black Privilege!


14 posted on 11/15/2021 8:58:54 AM PST by ProudVet97
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To: Eleutheria5

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

That’s because they are too stupid to realize the 2 that died were white. If they knew they’d yawn and go their way.


15 posted on 11/15/2021 9:00:37 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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Ya. To make up for the White Privilege that that I, my parents, and my grandparents apparently benefited from.

Total BS. Life was tough for my family. Democrats are idiots and I cringe whenever I hear the term White Privilege. It is racist in the worst way.

16 posted on 11/15/2021 9:02:05 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Eleutheria5

Don’t juries sometimes compromise by finding a defendant guilty of the lowest charge?


17 posted on 11/15/2021 9:04:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Eleutheria5

White dude is attacked by a serious of white scumbags and successfully defends himself.

That’s racist!


18 posted on 11/15/2021 9:08:56 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I guess I understand why machine guns are so hard to get, because there would be fewer but better democrats


19 posted on 11/15/2021 9:23:52 AM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Eleutheria5

The want to use their hypocritical motto “property is not worth a human life” to legalize the destruction and murder committed by BLM/Antifa rioters and make defense of property/life by the people they hate illegal.


20 posted on 11/15/2021 9:26:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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