Open Thread/Closing Arguments

They're back from lunch.

I'm calling this an Open Thread in addition to a trial thread because I'm up in the air whether or not commenters want to discuss this. I bet it's divided around 50/50. So please, treat this as an Open Thread if you cannot stand to listen to or think about Littlefinger and his Pedophile Starter Kit Mustache.

All of my posts are always Open Thread but this one is more open thready than usual, given how many threads I'm putting up on this trial today.

Rekieta feed.

Crowder is covering at Rumble.

CBS Live feed.

Law of Self Defense's live tweeting.

Littlefinger just claimed that Rittenhouse could have shown he was not a threat to the crowd by... firing warning shots into the air. He claims this would have indicated to the crowd he was not a threat to kill again.

Anything Rittenhouse did, Littlefinger claims was the illegal wrong thing to do; anything he didn't do, Littlefinger claims would have been the legally-required right thing to do.

Littlefinger is claiming the crowd has the "right to self defense" against Rittenhouse even though Rittenhouse wasn't attacking him. But Rittenhouse did not have the right to self defense, even though the crowd was attacking him.

Sean Davis @seanmdav

The prosecutor is just reciting the new left-wing dogma: left-wing violence is always allowed, while self-defense against left-wing violence is not.

Under the current regime, you don't have rights so much as you have a duty to be a victim of left-wing mob violence.

Antifa has a right to vigilante curb-stomp anyone they consider a threat, but Kyle Rittenhouse was acting provocatively in acting as a "vigilante fire-fighter" in putting out the fires that antifa worked so hard to set.

Littlefinger is again claiming that full metal jacket is MaGiC bUlLeTz that are designed to pass through multiple targets killing people and in fact vehicles over 500 yards.

He again claims that a carrying sling is for the purpose of retaining the weapon. He had all trial to call a witness who would claim this, but did not. So he's calling himself as an expert witness, I guess. The defense, again, does not object.

This defense is awful. Awful.

No wonder Robert Barnes quit.

Littlefinger = Jaws

All the dicks in the world = Quint

From Tami:

RekietaMedia 6m

Richards is now NOT OBJECTING to Binger offering testimony about the capabilities of AR-15s despite not having any of this in evidence.

Literally the worst defense in the world. Literally.

They have constantly allowed Litttlefinger to act as his own "expert witness" and testify as a prosecutor. An expert has to be voir dire'd, to establish his expert status. Littlefinger has none. The defense never objects. Never. Ever. Never ever ever.

They just let him testify and testify to things never entered into evidence, acting as an expert witness who was never established as such.

They let him testify earlier that "you cannot fire a gun with your bicep blown off." So now he's a medical doctor.

Littlefinger is whatever sort of expert he needs to be at any particular moment, and the defense just sits there in silent stupidity.

posted by Ace at 02:05 PM

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