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If you are wondering why the #Rittenshouse gun charge was thrown out just before the jury started to deliberate, Mike's got the relevant statutes below.
As for why it happened so late--that's because criminal procedure is TERRIBLE when it comes to resolving legal disputes . . . .
As for why it happened so late--that's because criminal procedure is TERRIBLE when it comes to resolving legal disputes . . . .
Criminal cases--like other cases--are sometimes a dispute about law, rather than a dispute about fact. That is to say, the defendant argues that what he did isn't illegal, not that he didn't actually do what the prosecution accuses him of.
Civil cases have a simple procedure for dealing with those legal disputes:
At the beginning of the case, the parties file briefs making their legal arguments, and then the judge decides based on those briefs what the law requires--either dismissing the case or letting it proceed.
At the beginning of the case, the parties file briefs making their legal arguments, and then the judge decides based on those briefs what the law requires--either dismissing the case or letting it proceed.
