Rittenhouse VERDICT WATCH Day 3: Jury Focusing In On Controversial Drone Video, Provocation Issue

Legal Insurrection

Yesterday’s request by the jury to view controversial drone video suggests they are focusing on provocation issue; if they believe that is proven, then self-defense is arguably off the table for Kyle Rittenhouse

"Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial! This is our VERDICT WATCH post, where we will share any fast-breaking news on verdicts and other events around the jury deliberations which begin today.

"For those who missed the closing arguments, or our prior VERDICT WATCH and end-of-day jury deliberation analysis, here is the coverage:

• Rittenhouse Trial Mayhem – Courtroom Fights Over Videos and Mistrial As Jury Deliberates
• Rittenhouse VERDICT WATCH Day 2: Defense Files For Mistrial With Prejudice (11/17/21)
• Rittenhouse VERDICT WATCH (11/16/21)
• Rittenhouse Trial: Big Wins for Defense on Jury Instructions, State Leads with Provocation
• LIVE: Rittenhouse Trial Day 10: Closing Arguments
• Rittenhouse Trial:  Defense Delivers Disappointingly Weak Closing Argument

We Warned Dems About Kamala

Democratic leaders should have paid more attention to the volumes of evidence that Kamala Harris isn’t even up to the empty role of vice president.

Tony Branco

The American Spectator   "In terms of an understatedly savage insult, it’s hard to top the president’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, for her Twitter rebuttal after reporters have noted the strained relationship between the White House and the Office of the Vice President.

"“For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country – from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband,” she tweeted.

"My wife doesn’t closely follow politics, so she couldn’t understand why I was laughing so hard. “It’s the equivalent,” I said, “of me defending your attributes as a wife by noting that you’re a vital partner in our family — and have taken on challenges such as paying the cable bill, addressing the root causes of our unkempt flower garden, and changing the cat litter.”

"Some commentators would have us believe that Kamala Harris’ political problems aren’t about her, but about the nature of the position she holds. “The vice presidency of the United States is a terrible job,” wrote the usually sensible Joel Mathis in the Week. “It always has been. And right now, that terrible job belongs to Kamala Harris. It’s turning out about how you’d expect.”

"Mathis is partially correct. The Harris vice presidency is turning out largely as this writer had expected, but not because of any inherent problem serving as president-in-waiting. Harris was a terrible San Francisco district attorney, a terrible California attorney general, and a terrible U.S. senator. Perhaps that better explains why she’s a terrible vice president?". . .

Rittenhouse doesn't have to prove he acted in self-defense

There is already significant concern that women who defend themselves from domestic violence attacks struggle to get juries and judges to believe their defensive-force claims

JWR  "No one disputes that Kyle Rittenhouse, now 18 years old, shot three men and killed two of them during turbulent protests in Kenosha, Wis., that broke out after the shooting of a Black man by White police officers.

"And it is well known that the central issue of his trial is whether Rittenhouse has a valid self-defense claim for the three shootings. Less familiar to the public, however, is that, by and large, the outcome of Rittenhouse's case will turn less on the specific murky facts concerning what exactly transpired on the night of Aug. 25 than on the seemingly technical but actually essential issue of the burden of proof: Does Rittenhouse have to prove he was acting in justifiable self-defense, or does the state have to disprove it?

"In Wisconsin, the state bears that burden: The prosecution must disprove at least one legal element of Rittenhouse's self-defense claim, and do so beyond a reasonable doubt. Now, to be clear, that doesn't mean that Rittenhouse could just pronounce "I did it in self-defense!" and sit down. Rittenhouse bore the "burden of production" - one of the components of burden of proof.

"That means he had to present facts which, if proved, could be found by a jury to constitute valid defensive force. But the Wisconsin state Supreme Court has made it clear that this burden is a fairly low (if meaningful) bar. The narrative that Rittenhouse laid out cleared it; it then fell to the prosecution to disprove at least some part of it. The prosecution may yet prevail in its attempt to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that self-defense was justified; that's now up to the jury. But many legal experts have described such an outcome as a long shot." . . .

Joy Reid Accused Of Racism Over ‘White Male Tears’ Comment Amid Kyle Rittenhouse Trial In Viral Video

theJasmineBRAND

“You can be black and racist. Joy Reid proves this.”

"MSNBC national correspondent, Joy Reid, is getting candid with her thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse case.

"Kyle Rittenhouse faces multiple charges for shooting three men, and killing two of them, during an August 2020 protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin. While on the stand on Nov. 10, he began crying when he gave his testimony of what happened the night of the shooting."

. . .

She continued and said,

“And his [Kavanaugh’s] tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of Christine Blasey Ford [his accuser]. But in America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears. Really white tears in general, because, that’s what Karens are, right?”  

"You can watch her full video below. It’s caused some passionate responses on Twitter and many users have accused Joy Reid of being racist.

Get Rittenhouse!

Ann Coulter....Editor's note: This column contains graphic language.

"In his prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger drew so many well-earned rebukes from the judge that some speculated he was intentionally going for a mistrial.

"Nope. He was fighting like a banshee. He just has a really bad case.

"Of course, it was his own decision to charge the then-17-year-old Rittenhouse with murder for shooting three psychopathic criminals who were attacking him at the BLM/antifa riots in Kenosha last year. (That, by the way, is a more accurate summary of the evidence than anything Binger said.)

"In his closing argument, Binger decided to ignore his loser case and argue an entirely different case, for which no evidence had been adduced. Binger posited that Rittenhouse was an "active shooter" -- like at Sandy Hook Elementary or Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

"Forget that Rittenhouse was not at a grade school, but in the middle of a riot that did $50 million in damage to the town of Kenosha. Forget that rioters were beating up random people they encountered, including a 71-year-old man protecting a mattress store from being looted, who had his jaw and nose broken by a water bottle filled with concrete -- hurled by "unarmed" protesters.". . .

Rittenhouse Trial: Big Wins for Defense on Jury Instructions, State Leads with Provocation; but the crowd seems to own the streets

Legal Insurrection

There's a rumor that the mob has affected the Kyle Rittenhouse jury   "Anybody objectively watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trial could see that he should never have been charged.  Witness testimony and video footage established clearly that Kyle acted in self-defense when he shot at three men, all of whom were vigorously engaged in trying to kill him.  My worry from the beginning, though, has been that the jury will be so intimidated by the gathering mobs that it will affect their verdict.  The facts seem to support my concern.

"Despite the clear evidence presented, which should have led to a verdict in an hour or two at most, the jury did not reach a verdict on Monday.  According to Jacek Posobiec, "Two jurors holding decision up, outright citing backlash, per US Marshall in Kenosha." 

Buck Sexton

: A manifestly innocent Rittenhouse still at this moment faces the prospect of life in prison because a jury knows he did nothing wrong but is terrified their lives could be ruined for finding him not guilty

Handbrake Poso

: This is the America that the Left wanted to create, and it’s here

Handbrake Poso: 

I see people tweeting they want to come after Kyle Rittenhouse if he walks and I can't help but think - wow - are you really just going to cross state lines?!

. . ."What is heartening is that only two of the twelve jurors seem to fear the mob.  That means ten out of the twelve people in that jury room believe that Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent and are willing to go back into the courtroom and say so.  I hope they can prevail on the other two jurors to do the right thing.  If they don't, we have ceased to be a country with the rule of law and, instead, become a country governed by mob rule on the ground and totalitarian diktats from on high.  Rather than being a free, first-world nation, we will be just another failed state." 

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The Joe & Kamala Show

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "Strange things are happening, and it does not get any stranger than The Joe and Kamala Show.  On Sunday night, CNN got everyone excited with a front-page website story about the knives out in the White House.  It must have hit the right spot because the press secretary put out a statement denying that Joe & Kamala were throwing dishes at each other.

"This is the story:

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended Vice President Kamala Harris' position in the Biden administration on Sunday amid her sinking poll numbers.

"For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country -- from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband," Psaki tweeted.

"I guess that's like passengers on a cross-Atlantic flight in the middle of a storm who hear that the pilot and the copilot are screaming at each other." . . .

Austria formally segregates unvaxxed from society, promises rigid enforcement and heavy fines

The selections begin: After taking effect Sunday at midnight, Austria’s new policy has put some 2 million people under lockdown, formally segregating unvaccinated Austrians from society. Antifa brought us Kristallnacht; Covid gave us ostracizing of the "undesirables".TD

Lifesite  "VIENNA, Austria (LifeSiteNews) — In a deliberately divisive lockdown strategy allegedly intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19, unvaccinated people aged 12 and up in Austria have been forbidden to leave their homes except to perform a handful of permitted activities, including grocery shopping and getting an experimental COVID-19 injection.

“ 'It’s our job as the government of Austria to protect the people,” Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said while speaking to reporters in Vienna on Sunday. “Therefore we decided that starting Monday … there will be a lockdown for the unvaccinated.”

"Contrary to Austrian government claims, Simon Fraser University economics professor Douglas Allen, in an April study, reviewed over 80 research papers on lockdowns across the world and concluded that lockdowns saved 22,333 years’ worth of lost life but caused 6.3 million years of lost life, making the policy’s long-term harm 282 times worse than its benefits.

"After taking effect at midnight, Austria’s new policy has put some 2 million of the nation’s 8.9 million residents under lockdown, the AP reported, formally segregating unvaccinated Austrians aged 12 and over from society." . . .

Knowledge in selections gained from their ancestors perhaps.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

13-Year-Old Watches Father Die As Seattle Vaccine Mandate Staffing Crisis Delayed Emergency Response

When you hear youthful voices shouting memorized slogans with not a trace of original thought; This is what they create. TD

 Rick Moran

Ignorance made manifest

. . ."The mandate took 100 officers off the streets in Seattle in October, leaving the police department with less than 1,000 active-duty officers. Coupled with a cut in funding for emergency services as a result of the defund-the-police movement, the crisis has led to at least one preventable death.

"Last week, the Seattle fire department received a 911 call from a 13-year-old boy at 1:24 p.m. who said his father was experiencing a “medical emergency.”

"By 1:26, a unit was dispatched to the address — but not a medic. Two firefighters were sent to the address that had an outdated “cautionary note” for the apartment. A former occupant had made threats to first responders.

"The firefighters were instructed to wait for a police patrol to arrive because of the cautionary note. Vital minutes passed as the young man called 911 twice more worried that his father was getting worse.

"Finally, disobeying procedure, the firefighters entered the house at 1:39 p.m. They started CPR immediately. Four additional firefighters showed up a minute later. But it wasn’t until 1:45 p.m. that the police and medics arrived on the scene. They worked on the man for an hour but couldn’t save him."

KTTH:

One medic explained that “had it been addressed early, his chance of survival would have been 60%.”     Read more...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid’s crying shame

 Miranda Devine  "Joy Reid is a racist sociopath. How else to explain her reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down in the witness box during his murder trial last week? 

"“White crocodile tears,” said the hate-mongering MSNBC prime-time anchor. 

"This is a woman on a seven-figure salary who went to Harvard and has more elite privilege in her little finger than the 17-year-old son of a single mother who was in Kenosha working as a lifeguard when all hell broke loose in the form of BLM-Antifa riots in August 2020. 

"Yet Reid continually plays the victim and makes her living punching down at white people less fortunate than she is. 

"Rittenhouse, now 18, lost his composure last week when he had to recount the moment he was cornered by two men, Joshua Ziminski, who was advancing on him with a pistol in his hand, and Joseph Rosenbaum, a deranged pedophile just out of a psych ward, who had already twice threatened to kill him." . . . 

Joy Reid accuses opponent pushing for debate of making ‘White Man Demands’  ..."Others, meanwhile, accused Reid of “hiding behind the protective mantel of racism” by dismissing Rufo’s request as “White Man Demands.' ”

Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace Use Election Night To Audition for Rachel Maddow's Job... "If the goal was to make Maddow appear moderate, MSNBC was wise to place her near Reid, a known racist, and Wallace, a screeching elitist. As expected, both Reid and Wallace essentially recorded audition tapes last night. Could they be the future of MSNBC? Rivals of the network certainly hope so."...

MSNBC and CNN will not air the 1st black woman to serve as lieutenant gov. in VA because they don’t want people to see a black Republican & hear her message. Let’s make this go viral! pic.twitter.com/0HhhRb7u00

— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) November 3, 2021 

What Ails Kamala Harris

 

National Review  "On the menu today: CNN offers a blistering portrait of the perpetual dysfunction in Vice President Kamala Harris’s office and the growing tensions between her team and the rest of the administration. Also, the Biden team continues to insist that inflation is just “transitory,”

"A Blistering Portrait of Kamala Harris’s ‘Dysfunction’

"In an in-depth report published yesterday, CNN describes Kamala Harris’s time as vice president so far as marked by “entrenched dysfunction and a lack of focus,” and reports that Harris and her “frantic” supporters feel she’s been “sidelined,” “constrained,” “struggling with a rocky relationship,” “abandoned,” “annoyed,” and “hobbled,” and that “her staff failed her.”

"But other than that, things are going swimmingly!

"Five things to keep in mind based off CNN’s deep dive:

"One: Most of Kamala Harris’s Senate and campaign staffers aren’t with her in the vice presidency.

"Harris’s domestic-policy adviser, Rohini Kosoglu, is one of the few exceptions, but beyond that, the vice president is surrounded by newcomers and outsiders.

"Harris’s chief of staff, Hartina Flournoy, was previously chief of staff to former president Bill Clinton until joining Harris in December 2020. Harris’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Fuchs, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a foreign-policy adviser to Clinton before joining Harris in January. Harris’s chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, was press secretary for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and switched over to Biden’s team in April 2019. Harris’s communications director, Ashley Etienne, was Nancy Pelosi’s communications director and senior adviser until she joined the Biden campaign in August 2020. Harris’s national-security adviser, Nancy McEldowney, is a career foreign-service official." . . .

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The Rittenhouse jury now carries the load

 

Tony Branco

Closing arguments begin at murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse  "Closing arguments at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial began Monday with a prosecutor questioning whether Rittenhouse was really there to help the night he showed up in Kenosha with a rifle during a protest against racial injustice.

"Prosecutor Thomas Binger told the jury that Rittenhouse had no connection to the business he said he was going to protect, he ran around with an assault rifle, and he lied about being an emergency medical technician.

“Does that suggest to you that he genuinely is there to help?” Binger asked.

"Binger repeatedly showed a segment of drone video that he said shows Rittenhouse pointing the gun at protesters after setting down a fire extinguisher.

“ 'This is the provocation. This is what starts this incident,” the prosecutor said." . . .

Why Did Judge Dismiss Weapons Charges Against Kyle Rittenhouse?  "A Kenosha County judge handed a huge win to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense team before closing arguments when he dismissed a misdemeanor gun charge against the teen.

"Legal experts had considered the misdemeanor gun charge — which carries up to 12 months in jail — to be the easiest charge for the state to prove." . . .

Rittenhouse Trial Day 10: Closing Arguments  "Today the court will instruct the jury, explaining to them how to apply the law to the facts of the case as they determine those facts to have been proven or disproven.  This will be followed by the State’s closing argument, the defense closing argument, and the State rebuttal.  At that point, the jury will begin its deliberations. Once the jury goes into deliberations, we will go into VERDICT WATCH mode, so keep your eyes right here for breaking news and analysis of the final verdict(s) in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial."...

Rittenhouse Analysis: State’s Weak Provocation Argument Is Still The Major Threat to Acquittal   "Notable: ADA Binger mentioned “provocation” zero times in his opening statement"

Andrew C. McCarthy: The Rittenhouse Jury-Instruction Process Is a Mess 

. . ."I fear this pre-summations reading of the jury instructions will end up being a confusing waste of time. In the summations, the lawyers are certain to make arguments that skew the law, as advocates are wont to do. That will provoke objections and more legal arguments, and will result in the judge having to give more instructions to address or cure what the lawyers have said." . . .