Kyle Rittenhouse Jury To Deliberate For Second Day

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Kyle Rittenhouse faces 5 felony charges and if convicted on the most serious charge, could face a mandatory life sentence. Did he act reasonably in shooting and killing two unarmed men and badly injuring a third armed man saying he believed the defendant to be an active shooter? That, as the the prosecution rests in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial, with the judge continuing to deny the defense attorney's efforts to track visitors and remove black pastors from court.

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0:00.0	News continues, I'll tend to over Chris for Cuomo Primetime.
0:04.1	Chris?
0:05.1	It's not New Years without Anderson and Andy.
0:07.6	Everybody knows that.
0:08.6	I'm Chris Cuomo, welcome to Primetime.
0:11.0	We saw something in the Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin that you don't see very
0:15.6	often inside a courtroom.
0:17.5	A defendant, seating the jury who will decide their fate.
0:22.6	Kyle Rittenhouse had a raffle drum placed in front of him.
0:25.8	It was like some bingo or lottery or something like that.
0:29.2	They pulled out slips of paper at random to whittle down the jury panel from 18 to 12.
0:34.6	Right?
0:35.6	You get six alternates on standby just in case the jury obviously, 12.
0:40.0	The final makeup, five men, seven women, 11 white, one person of color.
0:46.8	Day one now of their deliberations has ended.
0:50.1	And there is no answer to whether they find the defendant guilty of murder and attempt
0:54.9	in murder or whether the defendant convinced them that he reasonably believed he was facing
1:02.0	imminent serious injury or death that night and was therefore justified in using deadly
1:08.5	force at a Black Lives Matter protest turned ugly in August of 2020.
1:14.2	The prosecution's argument, this defendant was a 17 year old Yahoo who came looking to
1:19.6	start trouble armed actually provoked the people who wound up chasing him.
1:26.8	When the defendant provokes the incident, he loses the right to self-defense.
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