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2021-11-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Alan Dershowitz: Kyle Rittenhouse 'should be acquitted,' sue media for calling him 'vigilante'

[Just The News] Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus, said Kyle Rittenhouse "should be acquitted" of injuring a man and killing two others in Kenosha, Wis., and sue media outlets that are claiming he's guilty of vigilante justice.

"If I were a juror, I would vote that there was reasonable doubt [and] that he did act in self-defense," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Saturday.

"Then he'll bring lawsuits, and that's the way to answer... vigilante justice is what CNN is doing, not what a 17-year-old kid under pressure may have done right or wrong. It's CNN who is involved in vigilante justice. It's The New Yorker that's guilty of vigilante justice."

Dershowitz referenced then-Kentucky high school student Nicholas Sandmann and how he sued and settled with CNN and The Washington Post for defamation as they accused him of being racist following viral videos of an encounter he had with a Native American activist in Washington, D.C.

"The idea is to make the media accountable for deliberate and willful lies," he said.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 01:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 The last honest man in the ACLU.

FreeKyle. Fight the Shitshow.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 01:52|| 2021-11-15 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 More litigation is needed. The standard solution from any attorney.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 02:01|| 2021-11-15 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Prediction:
Rittenhouse will be convicted on whatever flimsy charges the prosecution ends up with. Rather than getting caught up in the tradition after-acquittal festivities, the jurors will kick the can down the road. Rittenhouse will win the appeal, but that will take years.

Posted by SteveS 2021-11-15 10:01|| 2021-11-15 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Gun charge just got tossed. Judge says jury isn't allowed to speculate on provocation, they either see it or don't. He's basically unpantsing the state's case before final arguments begin.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-15 10:50|| 2021-11-15 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Happy to hear but why wasn't the gun charge tossed at the outset?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 11:09|| 2021-11-15 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The judge's reputation is for being careful and giving wide latitude to juries. The technical argument on the rifle's barrel length was something the state hemmed and hawed about until today.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-15 11:15|| 2021-11-15 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 This could be a double-edged sword... What if the jury includes a few diehard anti-gun nuts who are determined to bail Kyle on something / anything?

Not having this lesser charge option deprives the normal jurors of a compromise option.

Might be a hung jury, mistrial and then the poor lad's back in the soup

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 11:58|| 2021-11-15 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 * determined to nail Kyle

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 11:59|| 2021-11-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Sue Brandon for calling him a white supremacist.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-15 12:09|| 2021-11-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

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