“Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney wants a judge to allow him to argue that one of the men his client killed during a protest in Wisconsin last year was a sex offender, in hopes of showing the man was trying to steal Rittenhouse’s gun because he couldn’t possess one. Prosecutors charged Rittenhouse with killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber during the Kenosha protests in August. Rittenhouse has argued he acted in self-defense. His attorney, Mark Richards, filed motions Thursday seeking permission to introduce evidence that Rosenbaum was convicted of having sex with a minor in Arizona in 2002 and couldn’t legally possess a firearm. Richards says that bolsters his theory that Rosenbaum was trying to steal Rittenhouse’s gun during the protests” Fox News reports.
Joe Rosenbaum did some sick shit when he was 18. It’s not defensible and probably the reason why he was working at a Wendy’s at age 36 when he was killed. How that’s supposed to be an actual defense, as if Rittenhouse was somehow aware of Rosenbaum’s personal history at that point, is something I guess the jury is just supposed to roll with. And then that also leaves Anthony Huber and the third man who was shot and wounded by Rittenhouse. Are the defense team just going to wing it when they get to explaining why those two were shot?