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- The judge overseeing the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial lavished praise on the jury after it reached its not guilty verdict.
- Judge Bruce Schroeder said he "couldn't have asked for a better jury to work with."
- Schroeder said his remarks shouldn't be taken as commentary on the verdict itself.
"I couldn't have asked for a better jury to work with, and it has truly been my pleasure," Schroeder said after 12 jurors entered not guilty verdicts Friday, acquitting Rittenhouse of all five charges against him.
Schroeder's conduct throughout the three-week trial has been met with puzzlement from some observers of the case. He forbade attorneys from describing two men Rittenhouse fatally shot and a third person he injured during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as "victims," but said they could be called "rioters" and "looters."
Schroeder also drew criticism for his confusion about pieces of evidence presented at the trial, an odd remark he made about Asian food, and for letting Rittenhouse personally use a tumbler to randomly select the alternate jurors in the trial.
Prosecutors brought homicide and reckless endangerment charges against Rittenhouse, who brought a gun from his home in Illinois to Kenosha amid protests in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse argued that he shot the three men in self-defense.
https://news.yahoo.com/judge-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-praises-185740223.html

