Kyle Rittenhouse trial

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The reason it was inadmissible in the trial is because it would incriminate Rittenhouse with intent to kill. While not permitted to be presented, Rittenhouse was caught bragging that he would shoot protesters which makes his crying seem insincere (at best) given he knew (and we all know) i) no business requested his protection and ii) he knew exactly what he was doing arriving at a protest with a loaded weapon where he a) not supposed to be b) broke the curfew and iii) broke the law with weapon possession

Put the shovel down, you're already far over your head here.

This is why any sane person won't buy his little performance crying in front of the cameras
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nosha.html

He's a little s**t and is not remorseful. I stand by the families of the deceased and so would any other decent person.

Just talking about the elephant in the china shop.

That you have no clue how any of this works? Everyone is aware.

Knowing how shoddy legal systems work is quite enlightening, I should imagine Rittenhouse, Sandmann and Zimmerman will be getting together for a beer after all this is over.

I hadn't seen that one - I saw this one a few hours ago...

Knowing how shoddy legal systems work is quite enlightening, I should imagine Rittenhouse, Sandmann and Zimmerman will be getting together for a beer after all this is over.

That just leaves Huber's death. Is a skateboard sufficient provocation to get your brains blown?

A 23-year-old who used his skateboard to beat a man who died a few days later pleaded guilty yesterday to first-degree manslaughter.

Timothy R. Strano entered an Alford plea in King County Superior Court, meaning he did not admit to hitting 33-year-old Demetri Andrews but acknowledged that a jury would probably find him guilty.

The incident, which occurred in Seattle's University District in April, stemmed from a traffic dispute.

Andrews, of Renton, was driving home with his girlfriend after an evening lecture when Strano and another skateboarder cut him off at the intersection of Northeast 45th Street and University Way Northeast, according to charging papers.

Words were exchanged, and Andrews got out and argued with Strano's companion, who pushed Andrews to the ground, prosecutors say. Strano swung at him "with all his might," according to one witness, and then ran, charging papers say.

Andrews, a real-estate agent, construction worker and father to a 6-year-old son, slipped into a coma the next day and died two days later.

In court yesterday, Strano was escorted past Andrews' mother, Rothopi Andrews, who shouted at him.

Prosecutors originally charged Strano with second-degree murder, but Senior Deputy Prosecutor Steve Fogg said the charge was changed because of a recent state Supreme Court decision saying a person can't be convicted of murder if the death was the unintended result of an assault.

Yup. Here's an example from my own hometown that I remembered from when I was younger:

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archiv ... teboard27m



The tl;dr there is a guy was hit once with a skateboard and died, and if you punch "skateboard attack" into Google, you'll find other cases, including charging documents labeling it as assault with a deadly weapon, which is sufficient to trigger lethal self defense.

An interesting piece of trivia: A baseball bat, which most would consider to be an object that can cause serious harm\death if a person were to be struck by one, weighs up to around 3 pounds (1.4 Kg), while a skateboard, which some people don't consider as a potential deadly weapon, weighs around 11 pounds (5 Kg), meaning the skateboard (at over 3 times the weight of a baseball bat) will almost always carry more force on impact (and so do more damage) than a baseball bat in a similar situation.

TYT have called it for Grosskreutz so his testimony will likely sink his legal case,

TYT also suspect Rosenbaum's action (even if it was throwing a bag) might be taken as sufficiently ambiguous but if I was in the jury I would want to scrutinise this more.

That just leaves Huber's death. Is a skateboard sufficient provocation to get your brains blown?