There's so many emotionally driven "hot takes" regarding the #RittenhouseVerdict As a trial attorney, unless I'm in the room, I respect the jury's verdict. May not like or agree with it, but they were the ones who heard ALL the evidence. KR was able to afford a proper defense.1/
He was able to raise over $500k due to the publicity of the case. Most ppl are unable to do that. There are hundreds, both white & POC alike, of ppl who are force to take bad plea deals or are wrongly convicted bc they had an overwhelmed public defender who was unable to pay 2/
enough attention to their matter. Most ppl live paycheck to paycheck. They can be easily victimized by a judicial system that doesn't have enough time to address their particular circumstances. A good "paid" attorney can compel the system to do just that and make it more 3/
difficult for the prosecution to obtain a plea or guilty verdict. Arrest quotas, incarceration for petty offenses, and conviction number games by some prosecutors all add to the disfunction. We need massive criminal justice reform. If we take any lesson from the #Rittenhouse /4
is that socio-economic or wealth disparity, and not race or racism albeit there's a ton of it, is the true issue which requires our attention. X
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