CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night engaged in a discourse on his show saying that, bizarrely, the burden of proof lies on Kyle Rittenhouse in the case of his trial.
"...Saying that you used deadly force on purpose, that you were aware, deadly force inherently means what it sounds like: force that you understand can kill the other person."
"What the threat that he faced something that made deadly force reasonable? That last part is gonna be a problem, I'm telling you. Self defense in Wisconsin is about imminent threat. You have to fear, to use deadly force, that someone is gonna really hurt you, serious bodily injury or death."
"Was it reasonable under these circumstances? Is someone trying to take your gun, if that's even what was happening? Was it reasonable to believe that it may happen. That's the standard to use deadly force in Wisconsin."
"He admits he intended to use deadly force, so he is going to have to convince a jury, or the jury will have to feel convinced, that it was reasonable," says Cuomo.
However, the fact of the matter is that, in the state of Wisconsin, as elsewhere in the US, a person is still legally considered innocent until proven guilty. This means that, in any criminal trial, the burden of proof rests on the prosecution.
Cuomo continues, "The jury has the difficult job here of balancing two very different faces of a killer. The one that I'm showing you now, weepy, cherubic, child, Kyle, fearing for his life, being pursued by angry men."
"Or, the cool customer in Kenosha that night who was described as cold and calm and telling officers that he has just killed people, that he was using live rounds. Pretending that he was one of them, saluting them, taking water from them, taking pictures, proud of his involvement."
"This matters for him, this matters for the victims, their families, but the verdict is gonna reverberate far beyond the walls of this courthouse. It matters."
Rittenhouse's roller-coaster trial is currently underway, with the defense now in the process of stating its case after what many people consider a disaster on the part of the prosecution.
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