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<blockquote data-quote="BMWMC" data-source="post: 5079348" data-attributes="member: 37461"><h3>Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 million legal funds won his case. Most defendants can’t afford that quality of aid.</h3>Rittenhouse’s $2 million <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/581799-rittenhouses-mother-asks-for-donations-to-legal-fund" target="_blank">legal defense funds</a> enabled his lawyers, before his trial, to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/us/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-saturday/index.html" target="_blank">stage</a> separate “practice” jury trials — one in which 18-year-old Rittenhouse took the stand and one in which he did not. The more favorable reaction from the pretend jurors when Rittenhouse testified informed the decision to let the teenager tell his story to the real jurors. His apparently well-rehearsed testimony was probably the most important factor in the jury ultimately letting Rittenhouse walk.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/kyle-rittenhouses-2-million-legal-funds-won-his-case-most-defendants-cant-afford-that-quality-aid/[/URL][ATTACH=full]360954[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BMWMC, post: 5079348, member: 37461"] [HEADING=2]Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 million legal funds won his case. Most defendants can’t afford that quality of aid.[/HEADING] Rittenhouse’s $2 million [URL='https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/581799-rittenhouses-mother-asks-for-donations-to-legal-fund']legal defense funds[/URL] enabled his lawyers, before his trial, to [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/us/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-saturday/index.html']stage[/URL] separate “practice” jury trials — one in which 18-year-old Rittenhouse took the stand and one in which he did not. The more favorable reaction from the pretend jurors when Rittenhouse testified informed the decision to let the teenager tell his story to the real jurors. [B][I]His apparently well-rehearsed testimony was probably the most important factor in the jury ultimately letting Rittenhouse walk. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/kyle-rittenhouses-2-million-legal-funds-won-his-case-most-defendants-cant-afford-that-quality-aid/[/URL] [ATTACH type="full"]360954[/ATTACH][/I][/B] [/QUOTE]

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