I've been watching the whole thing through. This is a miscarriage of the law in the highest order.
The prosecution are gaslighting the judge, and the defense are letting them.
Kyle's defense has basically abandoned him and wouldn't even object to the prosecution coming out and saying the sky is green and that's why Kyle Rittenhouse shot 90 black men in cold blood while blasting "let the bodies hit the floor."
The judge has numerous times said in statement things completely favorable to Rittenhouse and has even yelled at the prosecution for their bullshit and then immediately rules against HIS OWN LOGIC!
AND THE DEFENSE JUST LETS HIM!
Things are going very bad for Kyle, and I'm not overstating it.
It was the defense's case to lose, and they seem content with losing to the fantasy presented by the prosecution.
The largest affront to reality is how the prosecution is claiming Kyle provoked Rosenbaum by pointing his gun at Ziminski, which Rosenbaum didn't know nor has it been proven he realized that had happened.
They are creating this fantasy because they have drone footage that came in only last Friday that they have blown up and is so blurry it makes Kyle look left handed, but somehow that's good enough to show Kyle pointed his gun at Ziminski.
No one in their right mind could look at a video where Kyle is less than 10 pixels and decide he held his gun up for a fraction of a second, but that's where we are. The prosecution basically convinced the judge that a shit stain on some paper towel shows that it will rain tomorrow, and the defense just lets them do it.
This is a travesty, and it opens up the prosecution to gaslight the jury like they have gaslit the judge.
In a world that makes sense, this case would have been dismissed on day two.
The world doesn't make sense, though.
Thanks for the report. It took a lot of effort to summarize the trial and I appreciate that. Not that I doubt you... but does anyone else have a different perspective? Or can anyone corroborate this? I have not been able to watch it, so I value the discussion here.
The Judge can't pass judgement on the veracity of the evidence presented. That's the jury's job. The defense cant cross examine a picture so there isn't much to do but in closing statements to the jury call out the issues. If the picture was entered properly and there isn't any issues with things like it being fake or something then the process is playing out as it should based on Court Procedures for evidence.
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It was only entered last Friday.
They did confront it with being fake, and the prosecution called an "expert" witness to say that upsizing video didn't create pixels but the only thing he could say when the defense grilled him was "I don't know" to nearly every question.
Eventually, the judge proved for himself that upsizing his texts did create pixels and blur his screenshots, and the defense just ignored that he was handing them their own argument.
And the judge can absolutely pass judgement on the veracity of the evidence presented if the evidence presented was proven to be absolute fantasy. They sat the judge down in front of a TV and showed him over and over the video, narrating what THEY saw and he eventually just said he didn't see what they were saying.
The only ones testifying what is seen in the video is the prosecution. They have no witness who can corroborate what their claims are. In other words, the prosecution tore shit out of their ass, presented it as evidence, and no one is stopping them. They've already done enough to get disbarred, and are going for broke now because they can't break the law any more than they already have after Binger unconstitutionally (the judge said it was unconstitutional, by the way) attacked/circumvented Kyle's 5th amendment rights and right to council.
Yet they still continue this farce.
In other words, the prosecution is actively trying to force a mistrial with prejudice so they have an excuse to not be able to try Kyle again, possibly to incite riots while covering their asses.
It's that bad.
So it's just like the 2nd impeachment trial?