Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, just so we’re clear, there’s a difference between the lawyers creating reasonable doubt and the jury deciding it was reasonable self defense.

Fun fact: I recently rewatched The Jinx and they go over Robert Durst’s trial over the murder of Morris Black. Even though Durst admitted to cutting up the body and disposing it in the bay, he claimed that the actual killing was accidental, and through a combination of panic and drinking, he decided the best thing to do was to chop him up and toss him in the bay like so much chum. Because the forensics was unable to demonstrate otherwise, and because the DA chose to only charge him with murder and nothing else (and his attorney made sure to constantly bring up this point to the jury), he ended up walking. Apparently, when it came time for the jury to deliberate, there were no more than three jurors voting for conviction at any time. Well, after pleading guilty to the much lesser charges of bail jumping and evidence tampering, anyway.

And if you want to know why Zimmerman walked and a jury decided there wasn’t enough proof he killed Trayvon Martin in cold blood, there’s your answer: that lawyer created a lot of room for doubt and eventually, he was found not guilty. There may have been less room for this to happen if they chose to charge him with say, manslaughter, or maybe even second degree manslaughter, but the point is that’s what happened. And, honestly, looking at the case, the most charitable interpretation of Zimmerman’s actions I think is plausible is that he might have just been that paranoid and an innocent black teen died because of it. And that’s just be being extremely charitable towards him.