Nope, that only works for convictions. If a criminal is acquitted due to incompetence, malice or fraud, he gets away scot-free because double jeopardy is attached. Prosecutors only get one bite at the apple. Jesus, do none of you people watch Law and Order?
Except Rittenhouse didn't need to shoot in self defense. He could have just stayed home in Antioch.
And no one would have died in Kenosha had Rittenhouse hadn't shown up. That's the point. There would have been a few more days of demonstrations and then everyone would have went home.
Uh, guy, here's the thing. If we dug into your life, we could find something negative.
It kind of depends how the media spins it.
100 Million Americans have a police record. (I don't).
The jury didn't get to hear about how Rittenhouse beat up a 14 year old girls, are said he wanted to shoot some black people leaving a CVS.
Uh, no, he was walking home from the store and some weirdo was stalking him. Zimmerman never identified himself as neighborhood watch.