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OA538: The Rittenhouse Trial Instructions, Explained

Opening Arguments

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Can the Prosecution Refer to the Victims as Victims?

In this trial with kale rittenhouse, you are presumed innocent until proven guiltyand that's a good thing. The prosecution moved in liminae to prohibit the defence from referring to the victims as rioters, arsenists and looters. A judge said he would not allow them to refer to those individuals as such in opening statements because it hasn't been proven. But imeani says if evidence shows any or more than one of these people were engaged in arson, rioting or looting, then i'm not telling the defende call them that.

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