Came back home, got some rest, then woke up to find Kyle getting acquitted on all charges. It feels good.
Anyways, I've got some catching up to do. Here's the final summary and links to the start of each day:
First day (Jury selection)
Second day (Defense says the hard R)
Third day (Prosecution begins to fuck up here, judge gets pissed at him, Regg incognito video with superchats used as evidence)
Fourth day (Juror gets thrown out due to Jacob Blake joke, prosecution is dealt a major blow when witness said that he heard the 'victim' say "if I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm gonna' fucking kill you," and the judge gets pissed again at the prosecution afterwards)
Fifth day (Another juror struck due to pregnancy and the prosecution shits the bed even more: opening the door for Rosenbaum's girlfriend to testify that he was depressed and bipolar. They then subpoenaed two Indian brothers who have something shady going on.)
Sixth day (Gaige Grosskreutz takes the stand and gets spanked by the judge for saying murder during direct. On cross, he kept changing his story, is shown to have a financial incentive for Kyle to be convicted, admits to having pointed his gun at Kyle and that he lied to police in his statement to them, tweeted during the trial like a fucking idiot, and the facebook post about Grosskreutz regretting not killing Kyle was brought up and resulted in his friend being served. Soon after Gaige finished, a detective took the stand and testified that the prosecution told him not to execute a search warrant on Gaige)
Seventh day (Someone got caught recording the jurors and was forced to delete it. The bodies were shown with the jurors reported to be taking notes and some of them having difficulty looking at the pictures. The curfew charge was dismissed. Granny witness says hard R. Autistic photographer testified that he had a meeting with Binger where Binger gave him information that he hadn't known and wasn't in his official statement and then asked him to change his statement to reflect that. Aka, the prosecution coached him and tried to get him to change his sworn statement. Prosecution goes hostile on him as a result and made themselves look worse to the jury. Autist also testified that the ATF and FBI showed up at his house and job. Also the judge looked through a cookie food book.)
Eighth day (Gaige's roommate covers for him and denies what Gaige said. Indian car dealer came back and tried to evade questions by pretending not to understand them, only for a video to show him speaking perfect English. Kyle then takes the stand and it ultimately turns out to not be disastrous. Cries on the stand while retelling his story. Binger gets slapped by the judge for attempting to impugn Kyle for not taking the stand until now, a violation of the fifth amendment. Binger then fucks up some more trying to make Kyle out to be a liar, like using violent video games and Kyle's Instagram username and description. Judge gets absolutely pissed off at Binger, has the jury moved out, and outright yells at him for the constitution violation and inadmissible evidence. Binger then stupidly tries to argue the judge, making him more furious, and comes very close to declaring a mistrial with prejudice. Afterwards, Binger tries to attack Kyle at every possible angle regarding the night of the shooting and,
according to people in the courtroom, made himself look even worse to the jury.)
Ninth day (The video expert witness took the stand. Binger instantly objected and the judge mostly slapped him down, although the defense was required to change filenames. It was boring overall and the general consensus was that the witness was underutilized. Got some rumblings of the photo enlargement issue. BG on the scene came in and was vastly amusing for the same reason he will be ineffective. He was far too combative. Judge exploded at Binger, with the first outburst with the jury still in, over Binger implying he was slimy for hiring an attorney. Binger also attempts to get this witness to mistrial by trying to get him to mention Rosenbaum was a pedo by reading one of his tweets. The guy does not fall for it and asks Binger to read it to him, which he declines. Binger then admitted a political leaning in it through asking the witness his bias, a violation of his bar requirements, leading to the judge slapping that question down and accusing him of making it a political trial with the jury in the room. The prosecution then brings in an "expert" who is hilariously bad at being an expert to try and bring in the enlarged and enhanced (read: doctored) photo he claims shows Kyle pointing his gun at that one guy who fired in the air. He succeeds despite looking like an exceptional individual and neither the edited or original image look like anything in particular and the defense even got him to admit that he never compared the images together. They never testify as to what it depicts. This was likely to try to slide in the accusation on final arguments. Nothing more happened after that except motion practice on the dismissals and getting the jury instructions together.)
Tenth day (Judge gets pissed at prosecution at the start and the prosecution used pixelated images to try to implicate Kyle as being the one to provoke the attack, thus not making it self-defense. Pixelated as in "you'd have to squint your eyes to
maybe make out what's happening" and the judge had to get out of his seat to try to get a better view. In what's probably the biggest hit to the defense, the judge allowed it despite their objections, although the defense seems confident in what the jury will think.)
Eleventh day (Closing arguments and it is the longest day of the trial, with this thread going from page 925 to 1102. The judge tells the defense to actually do their jobs and to actually defend with timely objections. Motion for mistrial was filed by the defense. Gun possession charge was dismissed after the prosecution admitted that they knew Kyle wasn't in violation of that part, or the gun wasn't in violation of the law to be carried by him. Judge seems to regret allowing the blurry drone footage in, but will allow the jury to consider it nonetheless. 36 pages of jury instructions and it was clarified that if the jury found that self-defense applied to the first charged count, then they should not consider lesser charges on that count. Binger then starts his closing argument and it goes on for around 2 hours. The argument is about what you'd expect at this point and one of the slides even
has a picture from Roadhouse to prove one of his points. After the prosecution's closing argument, Richards goes hard on his own closing argument, attacking Binger at one point, and is overall agreed to be more effective than the prosecution's argument. Kraus then starts his rebuttal and it's...exceptional to say the least, to the point where the judge had to stop him and boot the jury out twice so he can yell at Kraus early on.
Many of the jurors were tired at this point and not impressed by this.)
Twelfth day (Kyle randomly picked which jurors get excluded from deliberations. 18 jurors were reduced down to 12, with the 6 chosen jurors being held in reserve in case replacements are needed for any reason. The end result is 7 women and 5 men, one of the men being Hispanic. The first day of deliberations then begun. During that time, the jury asked for 11 additional copies of pages 1-6 of the jury instructions, which lay out the self-defense privilege, and then the rest of the pages after a few hours. Jumpkick Man was identified and it's alleged that he contacted the prosecutors to offer testimony in exchange for immunity from an ongoing case, but they declined and chose not to call him as a witness in this case. After some Jeopardy, the court called it a night.)
Thirteenth day (Second day of deliberations. Attorneys are called back into the courtroom. Jury asked if they view videos in private or in public. Richards brought up that the prosecution's video is not the same as the one they sent to the defense, which wasn't given until after evidence was closed. Judge seems to be affected by media coverage scrutinizing him. The mistrial motion and the drone video discrepancy is argued about. Kraus argued that it was a clerk woman's fault that the defense's version of the video got compressed, that it's the same file as the HD version, but it was altered on her computer. The woman argues that that can't be true, the two files have different names, they were never the same file, the HD was altered on the state's end, and they sent her the compressed version under a different title. Metadata shows alternate dates between the files, meaning that the prosecution did create and send an different file of evidence to the defense. Adding evidence is considered
despite the jury already deliberating at this point. Jury requests to see Gaige's livestream video where he talks to Kyle and the BG on the Scene video which shows Gaige being shot, at regular speed and in slow motion. Defense offers a compromise of a mistrial without prejudice and the judge all but outright says that he intends to grant the mistrial motion if the jury comes back with a guilty verdict. It is then noticed by viewers that Kraus has Format Factory and Handbrake on his laptop. Jury then requests to see the disputed drone footage, which the judge allows, and they watch it for just under an hour.)
Fourteenth day (Third day of deliberations. Some of the jury notes were made public. Irene Byon, a booking producer who works at MSNBC, instructed a freelancer named James J. Morrison to follow and dox the jury, but was caught by police, leading to MSNBC being banned from the courtroom and Irene going into DFE mode online. Not much else happened until deliberations ended an hour early, with one of the jurors requesting to take home the jury instructions, which the judge allowed.)
Fifteenth Day (Verdict is reached.)
If there's anything that's wrong, missing, or needs elaborating a little, tell me.
