The shining beacon on the hill
or
The burning tire on the garbage heap
prejudicial: calling slain protestors victims
not prejudicial: labeling slain protesters as felons even when they've obviously not been prosecuted.
This seems fucky, would like to see what the judge actually said but expectations are on the floor.
Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled Monday that the term victims was off the table but Rittenhouse's attorneys could describe the men as "rioters" or "looters" if they can produce the evidence. "If more than one of these people were engaged in arson, rioting or looting, then I'm not going to tell the defense they can't call them that," Schroeder said during a hearing. The judge later added, "The word victim is a loaded, loaded word. And I think alleged victim is a cousin to it."
I guess two bullet ridden corpses in the morgue isn't evidence of anything.
not prejudicial: labeling slain protesters as felons even when they’ve obviously not been prosecuted.
ngl, this is fucked.
And then he gets to be a martyr and whoever actually does do the right thing and off this little creep will per end out sentenced to Gitmo somehow.
I mean martyrs usually get killed very publically. Disappearances are terrible things and I certainly don't wish them on anyone.
Side note did you know one of the most common disappearances in Alaska comes from people going out hunting hundreds of miles away from any civilization?
Maybe instead he can get shot by his friend at a shooting range or something. Die a completely stupid death.
Pretty sure he ended up getting time for domestic abuse, because it turns out a guy that stalks a stranger with a gun is a violent piece of shit
edit: nah i was wrong, he was charged multiple times with different partners, but never convicted
Here's the stinger. Support for increasing police funding is going up across the board in the U.S.; across lines of age and race. The American people have memories like goldfish.
Jan 6th really was the greatest thing to happen for libs in general and Dems in particular in decades. It's a rallying cry they'll be able to lean on for years.
what a coincidence how one of the bigger organizers, the proud boy leader, turned out to be a fed
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No, they must solely be defined by crimes that they could have been maybe doing at the time
I'm guessing the judge's logic is that calling the victims "victims" would presuppose Rittenhouse's guilt in the mind of the jurors, while calling them "rioters" could technically be supported by evidence using the government's legal definition of a riot. I guess the psychological image the word "rioter" conjurers in most peoples' minds is just of no importance.
What rote legalism does to a mf
Is there even precedent for that? Have any courts previously held that prosecuters referring to victims of crimes violates a defendant's presumption of innocence? The job of prosecutor is the opposite of presuming innocence!
I think it's because in this case they are trying to prove a crime was committed. After all, it's legal to drive into protestors, so if he claims self-defense there isn't clearly a crime, and they therefore would be instigators or fatalities, not victims. The judge is having a really hard time here because no property was damaged, just human lives were violently ended by some miserable sack of dog turds whom I believe should be thrown into the ocean in a burlap sack with a brick in it, so he doesn't know if a crime was committed or not. If he were to accidentally hit someone's tire with a bullet, then the judge would easily be able to tell a crime was committed.
The other article that's been posted here about this event notes that that is in fact common in potential self-defense cases.
Self defense is making sure this fucker isn't on the street by any means means necessary for a wide swath of people
Judicial Realism was right and every other form of Jurisprudence is wrong.
Of course if someone else had shot at him, he would be coddled like a victim and the other person would face punishment.
