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Old 09-19-2021, 06:55   #4
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Pre-trial setback for prosecutor

This is good news.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can’t argue that a man who shot three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin is affiliated with the Proud Boys or that he attacked a woman months before the shootings, bolstering his position as he prepares for a politically charged trial.

Kyle Rittenhouse is set to stand trial beginning Nov. 1 on multiple counts, including homicide. The 18-year-old argues he opened fire in self-defense after the men attacked him. Prosecutors say they have infrared video from an FBI surveillance plane that shows Rittenhouse followed and confronted the first man he shot.
Full account of the legal jockeying at the link above. Nice to see the acknowledgement of the FBI overhead; should be interesting to compare their 'surveillance' with the contradicting mass of street-level video that shows the opposite.
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