The jury deliberating Kyle Rittenhouse's fate is rewatching multiple videos shown in court, while the defense is again asking for a mistrial
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- A Wisconsin jury requested to see a number of movies on their second day of deliberating Kyle Rittenhouse's destiny.
- One of many movies, drone footage displaying Rittenhouse's first capturing, prompted a mistrial request from protection attorneys.
- The protection argued that prosecutors had unfairly given them a lower-quality model of the video.
The Wisconsin jury deliberating Kyle Rittenhouse's destiny rewatched a number of movies on Wednesday that had been performed to them over the course of the two-week trial, together with hotly disputed drone footage that protection attorneys argued was grounds for a mistrial.
Wednesday marked the second day of deliberations because the jury weighed charges against Rittenhouse for fatally capturing two males and injuring a 3rd on August 25, 2020. The 18-year-old has pleaded not guilty to all five charges towards him, testifying that he opened hearth in self-defense as a result of the lads attacked him.
The movies the jury requested to see embrace two clips — one at full velocity and one other in sluggish movement — displaying the second Rittenhouse shot Gaige Grosskreutz. Grosskreutz, who survived the capturing, had approached Rittenhouse while holding a pistol, briefly raised his arms in give up, then darted ahead simply earlier than Rittenhouse opened hearth.
The jury additionally requested to see footage that Grosskreutz, himself, recorded within the moments main as much as the capturing.
Probably the most contentious video the jurors requested to see, which provoked one other request for a mistrial from the protection, was drone footage displaying the primary capturing from that night.
Prosecutors argued that the footage confirmed Rittenhouse elevating his AR-15 rifle and pointing it at a person named Joshua Ziminski, which they argued proves that Rittenhouse had been the "preliminary aggressor" and provoked Joseph Rosenbaum to start chasing him.
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Rittenhouse's protection attorneys disagreed that the video confirmed Rittenhouse pointing his rifle. Additionally they accused prosecutors of offering them a lower-quality model of the video that was much more grainy than the unique.
Although prosecutors stated they hadn't deliberately offered a blurry model of the video to the protection, suggesting it had been inadvertently compressed once they emailed it to Rittenhouse's attorneys, the protection stated they needed "a degree, truthful enjoying area," even when that meant a brand new trial.
"We'll all have the identical info, the identical high quality of movies, and I feel that's required in a case like this the place [Rittenhouse] is dealing with a life sentence with out parole if he's convicted," Rittenhouse's protection lawyer, Corey Chirafisi, argued.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder didn't instantly rule on a mistrial. Schroeder stated he'd had "qualms" concerning the video when it was performed at trial, however he stated since jurors had already seen the video, it made sense to allow them to rewatch it throughout deliberations.
However the decide warned prosecutors that if the drone video proves unreliable, "it's going to be ugly."
It's unclear why jurors needed to see the movies on Wednesday, or how far alongside of their deliberations they have been. On Tuesday, the jury requested extra copies of the 36-page instructional guide Schroeder offered.
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