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The Rittenhouse Trial and Law Stuff

It Could Happen Here

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The Judge's Distinction in These Matters

The judge has a tremendous amount of discretion in making evidentiary rulees, rulings. The defence is authorized to characterize the people that ritdenhouse killed as looters or rioters if there is evidence presented that they were looting and were rioting her. I get that these rulings don't make us feel good, but they aren't that strange. And as i said, the judge has tremendous discretion in these matters. A, i was thinking about how to illustrate this, and it occurred to me, i think, the last time i was on one of your podcasts, you asked me whether cocaine was illegal. Yes.

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