The men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020 can potentially be referred to at his trial as 'rioters' or 'looters,' a Wisconsin judge said Monday while reiterating his long-held view that attorneys should not use the word 'victim.'
The men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020 can potentially be referred to at his trial as "rioters" or "looters," a Wisconsin judge said Monday while reiterating his long-held view that attorneys should not use the word "victim."
Rittenhouse is charged with felony homicide related to the shooting and killing of Anthony M. Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and felony attempted homicide for allegedly wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during protests that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August 2020. "If I were to count the number of times that you've admonished me not to call someone a victim during a trial, it would be in the thousands," Binger said.
"Even if these individuals who were shot were involved in rioting and looting, the evidence, what we hear to date, is that [Rittenhouse] didn't know that," she told CNN Wednesday. CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said allowing use of "rioters" and "arsonists" to describe the dead men "should help Rittenhouse's defense a great deal."
As Rosenbaum lay on the ground, the complaint says, Rittenhouse ran away while calling a friend and telling them, "I just killed somebody." He was pursued by protesters, and then tripped and fell to the ground.
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