I've been calling the Rittenhouse prosecution Kafkaesque, but Power Line's take is on point, too:
George Floyd found himself being choked by a police officer because he tried to pass counterfeit currency and then violently resisted arrest. At the officer’s trial, Floyd’s criminal behavior didn’t matter in assessing the officer’s conduct once he had Floyd under control.
Why, then, does it matter how Rittenhouse got to the point where he had to shoot the three guys who threatened him with lethal force? He’s not being tried for trespassing on a riot.
It strikes me that with this trial (but not only with this trial), we are through the looking glass. Let’s hope the Rittenhouse jury helps pull us back to the right side of it.That's it, right there. The prosecution's theory is felony trespass on the good kind of riot.
Both Mayor Antaramian and County Exec Kreuser hid under their beds in the fetal position rather than using appropriate force to STOP the rioting.
ReplyDeleteThe Preamble to the Constitution explains exactly why these two should be summarily dismissed from office and replaced by actual men.
I just watch the "prosecutor" demand to know who the lawyer a defense witness hired and why--because, in response to a defense objection and the judge's question, the prosecutor thought the hiring might impact the witness' credibility.
ReplyDeleteAnd the prosecutor actually managed that with a straight face.
Eric Hines
Dad29, Judge Hines would bar this prosecutor from my court until the prosecutor's boss appeared in my court to explain why he allowed his employee to conduct this case in this manner and then to apologize to the court, to the defendant, to the defendant's family verbally and in writing.
ReplyDeleteThe bar would extend until the prosecutor finished a one-year course in ethics and repeated first year law, each with a grade of at least B+ or equivalent on a 4.0 or 5.0 grading system.
Eric Hines