The prosecution sort of ended up doing the defence's job. The defences kept hammering tat home, and i think he gave the jury a sort of things to think about in their deliberations. But you ben, just elax emesse, he got very emotional early on in the testimony, and then we never saw that kind of emotion again. It is true that he started crying when he said, i was cornered by joseph rosenbaum. And what do you do? Then i fire one shot. You know, ther's been a lot of debate, like, was that emotion real? Did he fake it? I thought it was real. He didn't cry when
After the Chicago Tribune’s Stacy St. Clair runs through the Rittenhouse trial and verdict, legal scholar Eric Ruben explains how “self-defense” can apply to shooting unarmed people in public.
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