I am not impressed with the Rittenhouse judge's quantry to the Rule of Law.
The prosecutor has had a huge opposition to his pledgings by the judge and now the judge further has opposition to the prosecutor's clarify on the charges made against Rittenhouse.
I think the prosecutor already has reasons for an appeal.
The judge needs to be reviewed by peers to determine his competency in OBEYING the Rule of Law. I am sure he can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time, but, I believe there is a sense of self-righteousness when coming to his particular of the court. He could easily be determined as an activist judge.
Perfect Self-Defense
Perfect self-defense (click here) is the use of force by one who accurately appraises the necessity and the amount of force to repel an attack.
The two dead men were unarmed.
It meets all of the generally accepted legal conditions for such a claim to be valid. Perfect self defense requires that when deadly force is used the defendant reasonably believed it to be necessary to kill the decedent, to avert imminent death or great bodily harm, and the defendant was not the initial aggressor nor was responsible for provoking the fatal confrontation.
It is necessary to realize there were no military style guns in the crowd, no matter how one defines the crowd. Rittenhouse walked into the crowd knowing he would kill people that HE determined to be breaking the law. There is no other reason to carry that military weapon. He is a vigilante and cannot be viewed as an individual within the crowd as an innocent person that was attacked for no reason. The men that attempted to disarm him were afraid for their lives, too, as well as the lives of others. That weapon can CUT DOWN human beings in large numbers at any point in time in seconds. There was no time to think about what Rittenhouse's reasons were, the presence of the gun was threatening. Words are not necessary to be considered a terrorist either. Rittenhouse turned the crowds actions into combat with the presence of the AR-15. The gun changed the thoughts of the people in the crowd and Rittenhouse was a huge threat.
Testimony could not be given by dead men.
September 3, 2020By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner
After a worldwide social media audience (click here) watched 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse open fire in the middle of a Kenosha, Wisconsin street with an AR-15 style rifle, he returned to his family's home in Chicago's northwest suburbs.
The I-Team has learned from federal investigators that the gun was legally purchased, however, authorities are still working to figure out how it ended up in the teen's hands.
A few hours later, when Rittenhouse voluntarily surrendered to Antioch police, "our department did take possession of two Smith and Wesson M&P 15 Rifles" the ABC7 I-Team was told Thursday by police chief Geoff Guttschow. "These rifles were subsequently turned over to the Kenosha Police Department in furtherance of their investigation into the shootings that took place there," chief Guttschow said.
Even as the teenager is being held in a Lake County lockup while extradition proceedings play out, investigators on both sides of the state line work to "determine when, where, how and by whom the firearms were purchased; and to determine if any crimes were committed in our jurisdiction in doing so," Guttschow said....
The judge is solicitous of the jury.
