Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz claimed that Kyle Rittenhouse
should be acquitted in his murder trial this week, then sue media
organizations for smearing him.

Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax on Saturday and said that Rittenhouse, who is
on trial for killing two men and wounding a third during riots in Wisconsin
last year, should walk free under the �reasonable doubt� standard that he
acted in self-defense. The Harvard professor then added that Rittenhouse
should take various media organizations to court for spreading �deliberate
and willful lies� about him and his trial.

�He should be acquitted,� Dershowitz said. �If I were a juror, I would vote
that there was reasonable doubt that he did act in self-defense, and then
he�ll bring lawsuits and that�s the way to answer. I�ve sued CNN, the
Covington people have sued CNN. You know, the idea is to make the media
accountable for deliberate and willful lies, and that is consistent with the
First Amendment.�

The Harvard professor and Constitutional scholar tore into the media for its
coverage of the Rittenhouse trial, mentioning several outlets by name and
accusing them of attempting to abuse the justice system for other reasons.

�The bigger deal is that all of us civil libertarians, all the liberals, all
the ACLU-types, The New Yorker, The New York Times, they all attack the judge
for simply applying the Constitution. These phony civil libertarians couldn�t
care less about due process, about free speech. All they want is due process
for me, but not for thee,� Dershowitz said. �They�re taking sides, They�re
cheering, they�re rooting. The New Yorker, that trashy magazine, � already
dubbed [Rittenhouse], without any evidence, the �American Vigilante.��

�People are picking sides, and they are picking on the judge because the
judge has made some fair rulings under the Constitution. If the judge had
made, with the same attitude, rulings in favor of the prosecution, the civil
libertarians, the liberals, the left, The New York Times would be praising
him to the sky. It�s so biased. We don�t have justice out there. We have
partisan injustice,� he said.

The jury in Rittenhouse�s trial is expected to begin deliberations after
arguments are wrapped up by the prosecutions and his defense. Rittenhouse is
facing six total charges: five felonies and one misdemeanor. The felony
charges are intentional homicide, reckless homicide, attempted intentional
homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment. The misdemeanor charge is
underage possession of a deadly weapon.

The prosecution has ran afoul of the judge in the case, Bruce Schroeder,
multiple times throughout the trial. On several occasions, Schroeder stopped
the trial and sent the jury out of the courtroom to reprimand Assistant
District Attorney Thomas Binger during Rittenhouse�s testimony. As The Daily
Wire reported:

The judge in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse repeatedly admonished the
prosecution on Wednesday � at one point yelling at the lead prosecutor �
for risking a �grave constitutional violation� during cross-examination
of Rittenhouse.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger ran afoul of Judge Bruce
Schroeder multiple times while questioning Rittenhouse. The judge
scolded, then exploded, on Binger for commenting on Rittenhouse�s
pretrial silence, which risked violating the 18-year-old�s Fifth
Amendment rights.

Schroeder stopped the trial and sent the jury into a nearby room
minutes after Binger had begun his examination of Rittenhouse.

�The problem is this is a grave constitutional violation for you to
talk about the defendant�s silence, and that is, you�re right on the
borderline. And you may be over, but it better stop,� Schroeder said.
�I can�t think of an initial case on it, but this is not permitted.�

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Let's go Brandon!