According to the New York Post:
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted Friday on all charges for shootings that killed two men and injured a third during last year’s violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Emotions have been running high in anticipation of the jury’s verdict, with protests and shouting outside the courthouse and Gov. Tony Evers deploying National Guard troops to Kenosha.
The case left Americans divided over whether Rittenhouse, 18, was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante.
The teen faced five charges, including intentional homicide in the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as attempted homicide for wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, 27.
Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out a weapons charge against Rittenhouse on a technicality over the length of the gun’s barrel.
A seventh count against the teen for violating curfew on the night of the shootings was also dismissed after the judge ruled that prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence.
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I am so, so, so happy about this news. It has been a subject of unceasing prayer for me for some time.
I too have prayed for this young man. Thank God.
I could watch this video all day: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/rittenhouse-acquitted.php
I haven't even thought about whether he was a patriot defending his community. Perhaps I should have, but when there is a court case, because of my own background with courts, I think only "Is he guilty of the offense(s) he is charged with?" After that I don't much care. Opinions can differ about whether he should have done A or B, or A1 or B1. Doesn't matter. Those are long discussions for pubs.
I believed there was no way that he was guilty of the offenses, and am pleased that the jury saw it the same way.
The Post is generally regarded as a right-of-center publication, but...
The "technicality" about the rifle is black-letter law, (though buried in a maze of legislative malpractice) and the prosecution never even attempted to argue interpretation of that law. When the defense was working with the court (including the prosecution) to ask where the evidence was about that charge, the judge asked the prosecution if anyone had ever measued the barrel length. Then the state withdrew the charge.
The "failure of sufficient evidence" was utterly abject. The state never offered ANY evidence nor earned defense stipulation that a curfew was in effect, nor that enforcement was ever accomplished on ANYONE. The state made NO case on this charge, and the judge quite properly ruled it out for jury decisions.
The Post readers are in New York, after all, but the axiomatic bias indicated by these phrasings are symptomatic of the structural and systemic bias against tradtionalism.
As near as I can tell and going from memory, the WI legislature appears to have tried to make a law that would permit 14 and 15 year olds to possess only long weapons and only if they were hunting, and 16 and 17 year olds to possess only long weapons for any lawful purpose but not short-barreled rifles or shotguns. It appears that the way they drafted it you can't really reach that impact using standard rules of statutory construction. In any case, a stock AR-15 is not a short-barreled rifle.
Great video! Thanks for linking, Tex.
De Blasio and Cuomo are waxing hysterical about the verdict, and the NLMSM is, in their manufactured angst, repeating the outright lies that led into this case and that were conclusively proved the lies that they were when actual evidence was presented during the trial.
But then those on the Left have never let facts or truth trouble their nether minds.
Eric Hines
THis is still Soddom and it will receive Soddom's fate. Gonna needmore than 1 kyle to stop it.
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