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In reply to the discussion: Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge to declare mistrial over video [View all]Calista241
(5,586 posts)54. The baseline fact is that it's a 6th amendment violation for Rittenhouse.
The video would have been shared with a defense expert that prepared his testimony based on the degraded video.
By itself, this would probably result in no more than an admonishment for the prosecution, but combined with all the other mis-steps by the prosecution, it may very well put them over the hill into mistrial territory.
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No way they're getting the judge who allowed the video to rule he made a mistrial ...
marble falls
Nov 2021
#4
I think the prosecutor sent what he had, but he sent it via E-Mail and the email program compressed
LiberalArkie
Nov 2021
#15
I don't disagree but it scares me how many people think email is at all secure.
NullTuples
Nov 2021
#37
The problem is the prosecutor talked about how he didn't even know how to edit video.
Calista241
Nov 2021
#53
Hand brake is a program to compress the video. Like to take the MKV uncompressed video and change
LiberalArkie
Nov 2021
#59
This is nonsense. The defense saw the video in the courtroom when prosecution played it.
iluvtennis
Nov 2021
#6
Yes sir. They saw the so called inferior copy long time ago...did nothing.
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#24
Burdens pertaining to evidence admissibility and exclusion shift depending upon the context.
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#49
Thought so too. Up until prosecutor put it all together, was almost sure Ritt would walk.
Hoyt
Nov 2021
#21
Yes, a very good close by the prosecution - emphasizing Ritt provoked the protesters and that
iluvtennis
Nov 2021
#30
Just about all video is compressed. JPG is compressed so are GIFs just about everything except RAW
LiberalArkie
Nov 2021
#13
Pretty sure that judge would buy Rittenhouse a new house and car if he could. He'll declare mistrial
C Moon
Nov 2021
#14
Saw an attorney interviewed by Ben Meiselas that said the defense is seeing body language from
PortTack
Nov 2021
#22
Defense put Ritt on the the stand as a "sympathy play" in my opinion. They ere thinking how
iluvtennis
Nov 2021
#33
So, they would have approached the case differently if they had a higher-res video?
BobTheSubgenius
Nov 2021
#23
Or, I suppose, they might claim that they'd have asked Rittenhouse to explain features
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2021
#44
The higher res video was played in open court. If there was something the defense thought they
iluvtennis
Nov 2021
#34
The article currently says the high res version was only shown after the evidence phase
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2021
#43