Prosecutor: "You don't know, as you are sitting here today, what Mr. Rosenbaum was thinking, do you?"
Richard McGinniss: "Do you mean at the time of the shooting?"
Prosecutor: "Yes".... "Or at any time in his life." You have no idea...what Mr. Rosenbaum was ever thinking"
Richard McGinniss: "I never exchanged words with him, if that's what your question is."
Prosecutor: "So your interpretation of what he was trying to do, or intending to do, or anything along those lines was complete guess work...Isn't it?"
Richard McGinniss: "...Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!* This has to be the greatest reply I've heard in such a long time.
Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
You can't make this shit up. It is so fantastic.
The witness has probably completed multiple private depositions where the low paid overworked criminal prosecution interns summarized his deposition as " witness says pedophile guy had an ill intention towards Rittenhouse". This lawyer is trying to show that witness has no way of knowing pedophiles intention with hilarious results. This attorney did not do his homework and it shows.
You're giving too much credit to the prosecutor. They have a bottomless access to tax payer money. It is the defense that is strapped to limited funds. In the end, you are correct in the obviousness of this case. Self defense... I can't think of any better example of it.