Blow-up at Rittenhouse trial over enlarging photos and video
CTV
Attorneys in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial sparred for a second day Thursday over the technology used to zoom in on video and create enlarged images, with prosecutors alleging the defence was taking advantage of the 75-year-old judge's admitted lack of understanding about current technology.
"I will tell you that I totally agree with your comment about my lack of familiarity with these concepts," Judge Bruce Schroeder told the attorneys without the jury present. "This is a difficult concept for me, yes."
In both cases, prosecutors were arguing for enlarging key images on the night last summer that Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters and injured a third on the streets of Kenosha. Much of the action that night was captured on sometimes hard-to-decipher cellphone video, as well as by a drone.
The defence rested its case Thursday, but not before arguing with prosecutors about whether an enlarged image taken from a drone video could be admitted into evidence. Schroeder, following arguments held without the jury present, said he would allow the image, while admitting he didn't understand the technology used by a state crime lab employee to enlarge it.
"With all due respect to your honour, I think the defence is trying to take advantage of your lack of knowledge about technology," Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney James Kraus said.
