Rittenhouse self defense

People with law degrees from FB are never wrong.

If they're going to play that card, I feel like he's gotta be charged as a minor.

Saying you cannot defend yourself with a gun because you're a child and at the same time saying you're going to be charged as an adult is fricked up.

Not sure that really changes much because even as a minor, double homicide is probably life in prison anyway.

Law doesn't matter. A jury decides.

In Wisconsin law there are exceptions to self defense claims. If Rittenhouse was commiting crime with his weapon he would be potentially commiting a crime of brandishing a firearm and not have the protection of self defense. I assume the DA will argue that side of it.

he shouldn't have been out there with a rifle it was against the law. Don't break the laws of you don't want to go to jail.

A sane jury won’t allow that. I know that’s asking a lot today.

Also.. if I'm in the process of littering or jaywalking, and a violent mob starts chasing me down to kill me.. do I forgo my right to defend myself because I was littering or jaywalking?

Let’s look at it this way. If you go by the strict letter of the law, a 10 year old kid can’t posses a firearm under any circumstances. Now let’s says an intruder breaks into the home and the kid gets his dads gun and kills the perp. So if a kid can’t be in possession of a fire arm, is self defense off the table because technically his possession of the weapon was a crime??? Absolutely not, that’s absurd..

you have a legal right to defend yourself, period. Furthermore, the kid fled from the first attacker and was pursued until he was cornered. Once cornered, he used deadly force. This wasn’t an instance where 2 people are talking shite and a gun gets pulled. He fled and was pursued and was forced to use deadly force. Secondly, the other shooting. Again you have clear video evidence of the defendant being attacked by multiple people. One guy tried to stomp him, another attacks him with a skate board and a third pulls a pistol on him, all within seconds of each other. So while he technically may have been breaking the law in possessing a weapon, he was within his legal rights to defend himself with deadly force.. there will be zero convictions for murder of any sort, period. I also doubt they jury will convict him on possession under 18 because possessing the weapon is literally what saved this kids life from multiple attackers.

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instigating and brandishing weapon

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He wasn’t instigating and he wasn’t brandishing. Literally existing is enough to send an Anarchist into a rage.

Stop being a dumbass.

I was just making potential arguments you guys sure have your panties in a bunch about this.

Perhaps he will learn a valuable lesson from our legal system and realize how shitty it treats the poor and stupid as he gets to enjoy it up close and personal.