No chance became absolutely. How’s that crow taste?
Originally Posted by Joebillybob
Well, when I made that statement over a year ago, I had no idea that the judge would disallow any evidence of the defendant’s previous history as is usually examined thoroughly in most Capital Murder trials. Such as text messages, social media posts, previous statements made on video, which was quite target rich in this defendant’s history. Also, all the laws being broken by the defendant at the time were eliminated from consideration as well, that's highly unusual.
For example, when Amber Guyger was on trial, I think they examined her last 2 years of personal text messages and all of her social media posts.
The prosecution could not even determine or examine his state of mind at the time, the judge threatened them with a mistrial if they did. Then when the bumbling prosecutors allowed one of the wounded witnesses to admit on the stand that he was aiming a gun at Rittenhouse at the time he was shot, I knew it was over.
Basically, this judge narrowed the scope of evidence that the jury could deliberate down to the 2 or so minutes of shootings. Still took the jury 4 days to deliberate. Based on the judge’s efforts, I was surprised that they deliberated longer than 20 minutes.
I imagine the honorable Judge Bruce Schroeder told them that he was about to declare a mistrial unless they saw it his way. The judge worked hard in this case. Nobody is eating crow here, the only thing on this menu was horseshit.