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MSNBC MTP Daily November 19, 2021 18:34:00

deliberate. a more effective approach would be to charge rittenhouse with second degree intentional homicide for all of the shootings he committed and the attempt. it makes it easier for you to present evidence. and then move into your argument during jury deliberations. also the jury was not given any instruction about how to actually work through the charge which is critical when you want them to reach a conviction. part of what's not intuitive as a trial lawyer is to be effective, you have to be a teacher. you have to teach the jury what the law is. and you have to lay out how they're supposed to follow the law during the course of the trial. part of what we saw here is the fundamental lack of understanding about how you tell a story in the context of a criminal charge. if i had to put it on one thing, that's ultimately where the prosecution failed here. >> the judge was mercurial. i want to get all your opinions on this. joyce vance, knowing that, and i would argue that the people that should have known the most about this judge's habits, shall we

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