re: Putting Rittenhouse on the stand wasn’t a good idea

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Not sure why everyone is bitching about it.

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Because it's a very risky move. Putting a kid on the stand is even riskier. A good litigator is going to try to trip up someone on the stand under cross-examination. That task is typically much easier to do with a scared teenager on the stand. Maybe it works out, but there's always going to be cause for concern when a defendant testifies in cases like this.