On Monday, October 25th a Kenosha County Circuit Judge, Bruce Schroeder ruled in pretrial hearings for the upcoming Kyle Rittenhouse trial to set some ground rules, and the leftists following the story are seething about it. The November 1st trial will begin with the prosecutors forbidden from referring to the attackers Rittenhouse shot in self-defense as “victims”. However, if the defense can affirmatively prove the terms accurate, they will be permitted to refer to them as “rioters” “looters” and “arsonists”. However, in all fairness the Judge also ordered that prosecutors are “similarly free to use their own harsh terms to describe Rittenhouse, such as “cold-blooded killer,” so long as they back up those terms with evidence.” according to Insider.
None of this bodes well for the prosecution, who have been frustrated with Judge Schroeder since at least February when he rebuked their efforts to increase Rittenhouse’s bond to $200,000 and re-arrest him after he was forced to flee his home in response to threats to his life. Prosecutors even wanted to publish his new address despite the threats, something Schroeder rejected outright.
Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of murdering violent rioters Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz. Independent Journalist Brendan Gutenschwager (@bgonthescene) captured the shooting on video. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
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A crowd chases a suspected shooter down in Kenosha. He trips and falls, then turns with the gun and fires several times. Shots can be heard fired elsewhere as well, corroborating reports of multiple shooters tonight #Kenosha #KenoshaRiots pic.twitter.com/qqsYWmngFW— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 26, 2020
The Civil Lawsuit Against Rittenhouse Already Collapsed
Around the same time Judge Schoeder was scolding the prosecution for the lax security, the civil lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha Guard militia, and Facebook, which had a substantially lower burden of proof collapsed and was dismissed with prejudice. Typically a dismissal of this fashion indicates a lack of merit or evidence.
Cornell Law explains, “When a lawsuit is dismissed with prejudice, the court is saying that it has made a final determination on the merits of the case, and that the plaintiff is therefore forbidden from filing another lawsuit based on the same grounds.”
Given that attorneys for the so-called ‘victims’ couldn’t prove “harassment” by Rittenhouse and the militia or “conspiracy to violate civil rights” or even negligence on Facebook’s part, the notion that they can prove intentional homicide in a case where use of force experts have called Kyle’s actions “absolutely reasonable”.
