both the defense and prosecution looked for him before the trial. could not find him. it ended up getting into the hands of the prosecution by someone from the civilian who had taken this drone video and that was very clear. you could see what was happening in the first shooting that night where kyle rittenhouse shot and killed joseph rosenbaum. now we also learned that the ar-15 style rifle that rittenhouse carried that day in the streets was legal for him to possess. the judge saying that it has h to be a certain measurement for it to be illegal for him to be hold of and that was dropped right before the jury went to start deliberating in this case. the prosecution s comments on that, they didn t seem to know that the measurements made a huge difference here. but indeed the judge decided that is exactly what was the case and so that was never adjudicated by this jury. the judge dropped that. we also learned that kyle rittenhouse s father and other family members lived here in
kenosha and he was here in kenosha the night before he went out into the street. there has been a lot of politicians an there have been a lot of folks on social media saying that he came over with his gun, crossing state lines with that gun. that is not the case. we learned that in this trial. that indeed the gun was actually here in kenosha at the family of a friend s house who bought that rifle for him and that he ended up with it that night. not taking it across state lines to come to the protest. but taking it from his friends family home. we do know that in this case that there are high emotions everywhere. that politics has played in this with the right and left going at it over what they think should happen. and we re seeing that play out on the steps of the courthouse as well. yeah, sarah, thank you for all of that. stand by for us. obviously we ll dock back to you because there is a lot happening outside of the courthouse right now. we want to go to shimon
joining us now, to deal with all of the breaking news, we have our cnn senior legal analyst laura coates anz elie honig and allen turk heimer and eric gust is a trial attorney. to bring everybody up to speed again. kyle rittenhouse found not guilty on all five counts including the lesser included ones that were added. so, eli, surprise? it is not a surprise. because in our criminal justice system it is designed to be difficult to convict any person. that is why we have the standard beyond a reasonable doubt. it is even more difficult when there is a self-defense claim and it is even more difficult on top of that in the state of wisconsin which has a self-defense law. that is particularly favorable to a defendant. i think ultimately there were two key pieces of evidence in this case. one, this was a videotaped case. virtually all of the relevant conduct happened on videotape. and this was a split-second freeze-frame type of case. how close was rosenbaum to kyle
however members of anthony huber s family were there. his aunt for example was in court watching all of this the machinations of this court and waiting for the jury s discussion. but you hear there from a family who felt that their son was trying to do something valiant and they feel like justice was not served here. you ll hear the complete opposite from kyle rittenhouse, his family and his attorneys who feel that kyle rittenhouse as the jury also decided was innocent of all of these shootings and did so in self-defense. i do want to talk to you a little bit about some of the things that we learned in this case while the trial was going on. that was not public knowledge or whats not widely known publicly. one of things that we learned is that there is this drone video, a high resolution drone video that many folks had not seen including the prosecution and the defense until five days into this trial. and that high resolution drone video was taken by a civilian who had not i guess hand
huber was one of the people, the second person shot and killed that night in august by kyle rittenhouse coming at him with his skateboard and making contact hitting kyle rittenhouse. the mother and father of anthony huber said this and i m going to read it to you so that it is accurate. they said we re heartbroken and angry that kyle rittenhouse was acquitted in his criminal trial for the murder of our son anthony huber. there was no justice today for anthony or for mr. rittenhouse s other victims, josen rosenbaum and gaige grosskreutz. he was shot but did not die. his bicep was blown off and he did take the stand in this case. we should also mention that the mother and father of mr. huber, anthony huber, were not in the courtroom watching all of this and they explained why, they could not take the emotional toll from sitting in trial