Opinion:
While we watch and wait for a jury decision in the Rittenhouse case, what is really on trial there is the Justice System itself. Many of us anons on GAW have, over the years, lost our trust and faith in our Justice System. The DOJ/FBI cabal seem to be water boys for the Deep State and Demwit Party, and "law enforcement" across the nation is a spotty patchwork excellent local systems right next to some corrupt and ineffectual systems.
So what will come out of this trial will be a litmus test of Justice in America.
This is a problem I have too. I remember my first jury duty. It was a kid in his 30's. He had a spotless record growing up and got in an accident later in life that had him bed bound for over a year. Now I bet everyone here knows where this is going. He was busted on a raid trying to buy drugs. The prosecution want to throw the book at him like in this case. I told my fellow jurors I would not go for it that i believe in punishment but it must fit the situation. First thought was no one spends a year or more bed bound with out having problems from then off. I guarantee the kid got hooked on pain killers and eventually had no access to them and that is how he wound up involved with drugs. I told all the others no one is a upstanding citizen into their 30's and then just turns into a POS. I said yes he must serve some punishment for accountability but that he needed help more than anything.
Something more people serving on juries should know about, and that is "Jury nullification." Judges usually won't even allow that to be talked about, but a jury is a very powerful body, and if they choose en masse to "nullify" the trial, then that case is dropped with no recourse of a retrial.