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2021-11-11 Government Corruption
Rittenhouse Trial Midday Update: Kyle Takes the Stand; Prosecutor Incurs Wrath of Judge
Below is the introduction to a lengthy commentary on the Rittenhouse trial. There are at least three videos at the link including the one where the judge tears ADA Binger a new one. It is highly entertaining.
[LegalInsurrection] Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense ongoing coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense.

Today the trial heard testimony from the defendant himself, Kyle Rittenhouse—a high-stakes bet by the defense, and one that always has risk of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Fortunately for the defense, however, it appears that Assistant District Attorney Binger is leveraging this remarkable opportunity for the state to collapse not only the State’s own narrative of guilt in this trial, but to collapse the entire trial itself.

Indeed, so grievous has been Binger’s over-stepping on fundamental Constitutional rights of defendants, and curb-stomping on evidentiary rulings previously made by Judge Schroeder, that not only is the defense threatening to seek a mistrial with prejudice—meaning Rittenhouse could not be tried again, as would normally be permitted if there was a mistrial—but Judge Schroeder has repeatedly dismissed the jury during Binger’s cross-examination of Kyle to forcefully scold the prosecutor, and sometimes angrily shouting at him.

Throughout it all, Binger remains unable to pry even from the defendant himself any testimony that in any way undermines Kyle Rittenhouse’s core legal defense of self-defense. As usual, we’re hearing little but innuendo, snark, snide, and table pounding from the State.

Although Binger’s cross-examination could best be characterized as flailing from his first question until the moment a frustrated Judge Schroeder abruptly broke for lunch, there were three major incidents during the prosecutor’s cross of Rittenhouse that particularly frustrated the court.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 I honestly don't see any logic behind this prosecutor's unbelievably snide, contemptuous and over-the-top unprofessional behavior.

The defendant is a minor. All the evidence indicates that his motivation, intentions and actions were genuinely aimed at defending and protecting and rendering aid.

What does ADA Binger hope to achieve through his unprofessional behavior? Is Branca right -- that the purpose of being such a flaming asshole is merely to provoke Kyle into an angry outburst?

Can that possibly be the sum and substance of the prosecution's strategy?

If so, heaven help me and mine if one is is ever hauled in front of a court like this. For a case that is obviously one of self-defense.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-11 01:45||   2021-11-11 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 The logic behind this prosecution is anarcho-tyranny.

The Rittenhouse incident happened after days of Kenosha being under attack by an arsonist mob while law enforcement and the legal system remained passive.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-11-11 03:33||   2021-11-11 03:33|| Front Page Top

#3 

When Government Legal staff apply a Political Agenda in a prosecution, over established Common Law Legal Practices.

Such person(s) should be charged with Federal and State Civil Rights violations and prohibited from ANY future government employment or related activities.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-11 06:35||   2021-11-11 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Huge Development — ‘Rittenhouse team just asked the Judge for a mistrial with prejudice’

Which, IF granted, KILLS any retrial on these charges.

If granted Remember then there is the frequently and liberally used DOJ backdoor of Civil Right charges to by-pass the jury.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-11 08:16||   2021-11-11 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, I fear Rit's court challenges may have just begun. It's not about him per se. It's about self-defense, firearms, and support for continued anarchy.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-11 08:30||   2021-11-11 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 During his testimony yesterday -- about four or fuce hours' worth of questioning in the stand -- the young man reached the derailed, point by point description of the first attempt by the raging anarchists to kill him. As he described their frenzied screams, the gunshots in his direction, and the deranged charge of the berserker who has repeatedly vowed to kill him and also "tear his f--ing heart out," this extraordinarily brave young man broke down. The video is heart-wrenching. His convulsive sobs caused the judge to clear the courtroom for ten minutes.

Could it be that, at that moment, this young was sobbing for us? From the realization that his country has descended into a nightmare of anarchy and political show trials?

Was this patriotic and noble young man overwhelmed by the sudden awareness that chaos is come, that the righteous law-abiding American citizen is now hunted down as Europe's Jews were in the lands where brownshirts roamed freely, supported by a fascist state?

Shame on this prosecutor.

Shame on this administration and on all the Democrats and their Republican stooges who have supported this racial hoax.

Shame on the despicable bastards who have brought our nation into this nightmare.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-11 08:49||   2021-11-11 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 The prosecution's case seems to be so poorly executed that one might suspect it is on purpose. Could it be the ADA is trying to obtain some form of justice for KR without offending his boss or the mob in the process?
Posted by Glenmore 2021-11-11 09:31||   2021-11-11 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 #2 The logic behind this prosecution is anarcho-tyranny.

Yes, that fits. Perfect description of the Wokesters' use of BLM-Antifa violence these last 17 months*. Thanks

* Actually, it began with Ferguson and Obama-Holder.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-11 09:40||   2021-11-11 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 When when police and fire protection are inadequate, when rioters are allowed to burn and loot, surprise, surprise, citizens come out of the woodwork to defend their property and businesses. None of this would have happened if the mayor of Kenosha and the governor of Wisconsin had been doing the jobs the people elected them to do. They are the ones who should be on trial for misfeasance.

But the bigger issue is all the rioting that took place all across the country that summer, sparked by the death of a black drug addict who died in police custody from a combination of resisting arrest and drug overdose. Democrats and even some Republicans either vilified police or remained silent, often encouraging the riots, while the mainstream media denied the violence and claimed that rioters who burned and looted were actually "mostly peaceful protesters".

Why? Do they really want to destroy America so they can Build Back Better? I think we all know what they really want to build and it won't be better.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-11 11:45||   2021-11-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 * Actually, it began with Ferguson and Obama-Holder.

Actually, it began with Rodney King and George Bush Sr. We don't think of the elder Bush as a Build Back Better type but his chickenshit treatment of the LAPD set the tone that Obama merely followed.

People gonna riot every time a black man gets hurt or killed resisting arrest? Quell the damn riots. There is no excuse to do otherwise. Do NOT pander to BLM loudmouths and trouble makers. Responsible members of minority communities understand that they benefit from law and order just like whites. Do NOT pander to the Jessie Jacksons and Al Sharptons. Do NOT allow anarchy and chaos to destroy America.

Also, call out the mainstream media when they fan the flames with 10-second video clips that purport to show how bad the police are treating supposedly innocent black men who, in reality, are drug addicted criminals who need to go to jail. Tell the truth about what really happened and how dishonest and irresponsible some of these media types are.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-11 12:04||   2021-11-11 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-11 12:11||   2021-11-11 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes. This cringeing behavior about one particular race and all its pathologies, our self-flagellation in the face of extraordinary criminality and dysfunction, is our national Achilles' Heel.

All the members of our elite classes, be they left, right, Woke or traditional, D or R, old-money country club or bohemian yupppie -- all of them to a man or woman suffer from this pathology of race-masochism. Nothing is more terrifying, no bogeyman haunts their dreams more, than to be accused, regardless of evidence or logic, of being rayciss.

A million or more opportunists and race hustlers see this and batten upon it. And now they hold the whip hand, and are simply looting and pillaging -- not just the lumpen in the streets but also the race-hustling extortionists terrorizing the boardrooms, newsrooms, faculty lounges and the entire apparat of the administrative state.

We Americans did this to ourselves.

We have only our masochism and weird psychopathic race-obsessions to blame.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-11 12:15||   2021-11-11 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 White people are just as involved in this as the BLM (see Joe Biden, the District Attorney's, etc etc etc).

The bottom line is society in the US today is wicked as hell.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-11-11 13:09||   2021-11-11 13:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Bee had me reaching for a shopping cart.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-11 13:49||   2021-11-11 13:49|| Front Page Top

#15 I don't play video games. I'd play CoD:R for sure.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-11 13:55||   2021-11-11 13:55|| Front Page Top

#16 The prosecution's case seems to be so poorly executed that one might suspect it is on purpose.

Or maybe the prosecutor feels he is so far behind that he wants a mistrial and a chance for a 'do-over.'
Posted by Glenmore 2021-11-11 14:26||   2021-11-11 14:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Glenmore, if he isn't careful, he's going to get the case dismissed with prejudice.
Of course, then the riots will break out.
And the feds will trump up civil rights cases against Rittenhouse.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-11-11 15:41||   2021-11-11 15:41|| Front Page Top

#18 The guy is beginning to remind me of Mike Nifong--the DA who botched the Duke lacrosse team case so badly that even a Democratic Attorney General had to step in to stop the circus.
Posted by Tom 2021-11-11 16:25||   2021-11-11 16:25|| Front Page Top

#19 All started because a drug user high on drugs fought with 3 officers. One went to prison. If Rittenhouse goes to jail for defending himself from the same type of thugs, the dam will break.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-11-11 16:58||   2021-11-11 16:58|| Front Page Top

#20 I'd assumed the prosecutor was buying insurance against Antifa/BLM attacks for failing to win.
Posted by ruprecht 2021-11-11 18:40||   2021-11-11 18:40|| Front Page Top

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