Faun
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Rittenhouse can, and is, pleading not guilty based on self defense. That's his entitlement. What some are saying is that it will fail him in court for several possible reasons. For example, the prosecution is going to inform the jury self-defense is not a legal justification while the actor is in the commission of a crime, which Rittenhouse was. Or the prosecution may try to prove shooting Rosenbaum in the back was excessive force beyond what the law allows for self-defense. It's the judge's responsibility to instruct the jury about the laws of self-defense and how they apply to this case. It's then up to the jury to decide if the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the law did not provide Rittenhouse justification to kill in self-defense.This thread is full of libtards arguing that the SELF DEFENSE claim won't be allowed, because Rittenhouse was supposedly violating some gun law.
If libtards HERE are willing to play that game, why would libtards THERE not be willing to do the same?