would see his family and i noticed his mom, she there was an audible gasp from her in the first not guilty and as this went along her hands, her head fell into her hands where she appeared to be crying and relief after this. and as you know, this means that kyle rittenhouse is now a free man at 18 years old. he could go about his life. he could not be tried again for these crimes in this case. from what happened in august, you re seeing then again one ever his attorneys just helping him up. he is obviously this is been extremely stressful for everyone involved in this. not only obviously kyle rittenhouse, but the families of those who were shot by kyle rittenhouse. two of whom were killed, one of the people shot took the stand and was a key witness in this case. i do want to read you something that we just received, our producer jason received this from the family of john of mr. huber. and as you know, huber, anthony
they were very interested about what happened here yesterday with that juror who wanted to take the notes home the jury instructions, that she wanted to take those home. they were worry that might work against them but it may in the end have helped them because maybe this was the one holdout or something. so maybe we ll find out, maybe not. but this morning for them, they were going about their business. we saw kyle rittenhouse into the courtroom. he s not in jail. he s been out and able to move a little bit around the courthouse. he has security around him. so we got to see him today. they were certainly some anxiety but they were confident and they put on a really good case. and when you look at this case, and the way that the prosecution presented it, they have problems with the beginning from some of the witnesses who, remember, somehow were better for the defense. these were prosecution witnesses but once they took the stand, certainly they sounded and they gave this sense of su
rittenhouse, it was pointed at him, and then rittenhouse, that is when he opened fire. you could start to sense that things were shifting in this case almost immediately after that. because even when the prosecution tried to rehabilitate him and did a redirect examination and were asking him about that, he admitted that he had the gun. and then the other issue was that the defense made a big issue is that he who had a handgun, did not have a license, a concealed license to carry a weapon. he was never charged. so there were all of these problems with the different witnesses that the prosecution brought into the case from, you know, the main person that was shot here was the first person that was shot, he was a problem for the prosecution because the defense did such a job of showing all of the chaos that night and the video certainly helped them point that out. shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. our thanks to sarah and adrianne as well. we ll check back with them.
rittenhouse when he fired and when you re in that close of a case it is hard to prove reasonable doubt. and when kyle rittenhouse took the stand, the prosecution did not make enough of a dent in kyle rittenhouse. they scored some points here and there but they did not fundamentally undermine his testimony and sara sidner said it perfectly, there is a back drop here, there is a political and racial back drop and we take the decisions away from a back drop and put them in a box and get a just verdict. do you believe the videotape was the most compelling part of this for the jurors? i think kyle rittenhouse s testimony was most compelling because the jury instructions were really centered around that term reasonable. defining the word reasonable and the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of kyle rittenhouse not monday morning quarterback, not the jurors or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he re
thrown out. they were worried that this video was going to prove for the prosecution that kyle rittenhouse was the instigator, that provocation charge. so they were worried about that video. the jurors did not have a lot of questions other than that one day c concerning the video and then for the most part they just worked. they kind of quietly worked. did their jobs. last thing they did today was order lunch and then within an hour after that wed getting indications that somethings with going on and that there was in verdict. obviously there were a lot of key points in this case. the other thing is on the prosecution side, when their witness, one of the witnesses testified, grosskreutz, who had a weapon, that seemed to really shift the case for the prosecution. once the defense got him to admit that he pointed his gun, he had a gun on him that night, a handgun, he had his gun on him that night and that he pointed it at one point towards kyle