Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

[Rev. Rye]

And any jury verdict based on whether a particular law is ‘fair’ is likely to be set aside by the presiding judge or cause a mistrial. Jury verdicts are meant to be based on the facts in evidence and whether those facts merit action under established law.

Assuming, of course, that said judge is actually fair and isn’t working on his own agenda. Note the many examples from the Jim Crow South of white-on-black violence with overwhelming evidence of guilt that actually ended in acquittals. 

Or, Hell, there’s the fact that the big reason the NSDAP movement didn’t die in the cradle after the Munich Beer Hall Putsch was because the overwhelmingly Conservative Judiciary wasn’t very happy with the way the Weimar Republic was going, used the trial to give Hitler a Platform for his views (admittedly, Hitler did his best to hide his power level at the trial), and eventually sentenced him to what basically amounted to a writers’ retreat an hour from Munich for high treason because one of the judges had to remind the other four that the defendants had admitted to attempting to overthrow the government and that acquitting them under those circumstances would be fucking insane.

That said, I can’t see the judiciary of Wisconsin being that brazen.