The ruling, paired with an impending SCOTUS decision, will have consequences for the rest of us.
The case started to go very badly for the prosecution after the testimony of its star witness, Gaige Grosskreutz, who survived Rittenhouse’s attack but had his right bicep blown off by the 17-year-old. Thecame when Grosskreutz testified that he was aiming a gun at Rittenhouse when Rittenhouse shot him in the arm . The defense seized on his testimony, pointing to it as key to the defendant’s claim of self-defense.
The prosecution tried to argue that it was Rittenhouse who had provoked Joseph Rosenbaum, who had recently been released from a mental hospital and had confronted others using racial slurs during the protests in Kenosha, rather than the other way around. As the prosecution told it, Rosenbaum was the one reacting rather than provoking: He saw a man wielding a semi-automatic weapon and pointing it at someone he knew, which was backed up by video evidence, and he tried to put a stop to it.
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