Posted on 11/15/2021 8:00:21 PM PST by conservative98
James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”
Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.
Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.
“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.
“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?
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Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:
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Absolutely!
That face needs a couple of diggity diggity pops.
It is really a question of what is riot and what is wrong.
If he had done a directed verdict the media would have fomented a riot and he would be the only one blamed for the outcome and subsequent riot. Now that it has gone to the jury, the jury shoulders the blame if the outcome is an acquittal. The media will foment a riot and the jury gets the blame for the subsequent riot as well. If Kyle is convicted on one or more charges the media will foment a riot and they would be the only ones blamed for the 'insufficient' outcome and subsequent riot.
Wow. Astonishing.
This.
Let’s see. Steal, swindle, racists, a$$hole, raped... everybody gots to have some of that!!!!
May his projection be manifested upon him!
The practice of tar and feathering deployed by our forefathers needs to be reinstated stat…
Does this apply to fat overweight lawyers if we oh I don’t know, say don’t like a guilty verdict to come out?
This fat man, with double chins, should not be in “the peoples behalf, EVER!
I watched the whole mess and it was ugly. Can that guy, if you can find a can large enough!!
Sorry, Justice in Kenosha, if that is the best you produce.
Even in a loser position!
Those two Persecutors have certainly waived any personal self defense they may have had by inciting believers in logic and settled legal process/precedence.
Just take your beating, whitey......./s
If this isn’t proof that the Left wants a violent civil war, I don’t know what is.
These are the soldiers of the Left.
The DAs were targeted by the Left so they can use this violence and intimidation.
Antifa doesn’t exist says Chris Wray.
If you threaten and stalk people in the parking lot of a Trump Rally, there are no arrests. They want this violence and this Mob.
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The prosecutor is agreeing that Rittenhouse was about to be attacked. This is Kafkaesque.
What a nasty creep.
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It’s not a beating though, it’s brain damage.
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Never grab the muzzle of a rifle in a gun fight.
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