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Was the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Right about Something?
I’m not a fan of the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, as I’ve made clear here. That being said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. He made a ruling to exclude evidence and I’ve been chewing for a day or two on whether it’s right or wrong.
In a pretrial hearing, out of the presence of the jury, the judge ruled to exclude a video of the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse, saying he wished he had an AR 15 to shoot shoplifters. According to an article in the Independent “The video purportedly showed Mr Rittenhouse saying he wished he had a gun so he could shoot people he believed were shoplifting at a CVS two weeks before the events in Kenosha.”
The DA, during the trial told the judge he thought he could bring up the video to impeach Rittenhouse. The judge told him he couldn’t without bringing a written motion. The question, as I’ve said I’ve been chewing on is was the ruling correct on the motion, and was the decision to now allow it to be used to impeach correct?
The rule in Wisconsin is this
