Segnosaur
Penultimate Amazing
Because it shows a willingness/eagerness of Rittenhouse to kill people who were not threatening him. (Which challenges the idea that he was "only" acting in self defense.) It helps establish motive/state of mind.I doubt it. The reason why it wasn't allowed in, and was forcefully explained during the trial when Binger tried to introduce it, was because there wasn't any relevance to the case at hand. You'd have to explain how Rittenhouse talking **** about shooting "looters" is relevant in the death of someone who wasn't doing any looting.wonder, if this goes to court will they allow evidence that was not permitted in the criminal trial?
One of the "questionable" aspects about the criminal trial is that the judge did not allow a video of Rittenhouse talking about shooting people coming out of a store because he thought they were "looting"
It was the judgement of the criminal trial judge that the video "wasn't relevant". But judges can have differing views, and there is no guarantee that the judge in a civil case will feel the same way. They may decide to allow it to be shown, and leave it up to the jury to decide if it is relevant.
We're also looking at a lower standard of evidence here since this is a civil trial. Would you really need to go to the effort of getting this video in as evidence when you've got a whole criminal trial with some pretty solid evidence that you can draw from?
Rittenhouse talking about shooting people "just because" would be a pretty powerful piece of evidence. If I were the prosecutor I would fight like hell to try to get it into evidence.
"I was attacked and just defending myself". "Here's a video of you talking about shooting unarmed people who weren't attacking you".
I suspect that Rittenhouse may only really be in this suit in order for Huber's family to get better evidence to show the negligence of the government in this.
Give the fact that Rittenhouse was the one that actually pulled the trigger, I don't see why the Huber family would not want to see Rittenhouse actually suffer the consequences of his actions.