That's what I think the anti-Rittenhouse side doesn't see. This trial is a perfect example of DAs getting caught doing shady things and even a sympathetic judge doesn't have the courage to throw the case out.
It's an amazing example of how rotted justice in America is. But since it doesn't fit into the racial-power narrative it's ignored. This is the case that could teach middle America that their justice system is broken and needs reform.
Guilty or innocent, the DA has done so much BS that the case should have been thrown out w/ prejudice [1] a long time ago.
[1] mistrial w/ prejudice means Rittenhouse get's off. The argument for prejudice is that the prosecution is making too many serious violations for the mistakes to be innocent. And if they're not innocent mistakes, then prejudice attaches.
Was it? I was listening on the radio in the car when they were searching for a laptop. I don't remember who gave it to them, but they were instructed to make sure the laptop was clean.
Also, I'm not sure that the screenshot is of the jury's laptop. Isn't it Binger's after he turned it around to show something?
Either way, doesn't matter. Someone in the DAs office fiddled with the laptop and their laptops are loaded with this software. The DA is responsible for his office. The DA is responsible that the defense didn't get the proper copy.
The DA was claiming that his hands were clean, that whatever problem the defense had were not the DA's office fault (although he did blame the crime lab at some point).
His last attempt at claiming clean hands was that he was too technically incompetent to do so maliciously. But that's BS. Even if he doesn't know what handbrake does, if he uses it he's using it to somehow modify it. that's not allowed defense is allowed the exact copy the DA has.
Also, I have a lot of trouble believing that anyone, having used handbrake, hasn't noticed a drop in quality in the video.
Not if you'd been following this case. Since Friday the prosecution has been trying to do procedurally dubious things involving technology; like inferring that two pixels are a man with a rifle.
Today they got caught having sent the defense a lower quality video, after the video had already been shown to the jury. The prosecution played dumb, and even suggested that the defense's Android phones had compressed it. This is a serious issue because both sides of a trial have a right to the same quality of evidence as the other.
This screenshot proves that, at least Binger, knows about compression and uses it.
It's an amazing example of how rotted justice in America is. But since it doesn't fit into the racial-power narrative it's ignored. This is the case that could teach middle America that their justice system is broken and needs reform.
Guilty or innocent, the DA has done so much BS that the case should have been thrown out w/ prejudice [1] a long time ago.
[1] mistrial w/ prejudice means Rittenhouse get's off. The argument for prejudice is that the prosecution is making too many serious violations for the mistakes to be innocent. And if they're not innocent mistakes, then prejudice attaches.