Perry Mason Moments

the prosecutor just forced Rittenhouse to admit to a lie pic.twitter.com/MIhayWANuN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

Oops.

Rittenhouse: "He tried to take my gun"

Prosecutor: "And whoever's got that gun is a threat to everyone else?" pic.twitter.com/Vof0OxcxHe

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

Oops, again.

Rittenhouse "cries" again pic.twitter.com/txtNUj3hXR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

Never a bad thing in a criminal trial to make the defendant cry on cross-examination.

The prosecutor catches Rittenhouse in another lie pic.twitter.com/BE335UCnnI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

OMG -- Rittenhouse is an atrocious liar pic.twitter.com/XR6IMFVWCA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

Yeah, this isn't helping.

"Can you help me understand, Mr. Rittenhouse, why Gaige Grosskreutz, with a pistol in his hand, is a threat to kill you, but you, with an AR-15 pointed at him, is not a threat to kill him at this moment?" pic.twitter.com/McsWac1mkT

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

"Because only good guys with guns can stop bad guys with guns?"--Wayne LaPierre, from somewhere in exile.

The prosecutor points out that Rittenhouse, who claims he was there to provide medical assistance, didn't offer help to any of the people he had just shot -- even when one of his victims was yelling for help pic.twitter.com/9LtpEkbvM6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2021

What a guy! What a guy! And who among us doesn't take an assault rifle with us so we can provide medical assistance. I mean, you need a reason for the medical assistance first, right?

I have no criminal trial experience, but if I didn't have to put my criminal defendant client on the witness stand, I wouldn't.  My guess is the defense didn't have a defense to speak of, and the prosecution case was too strong to let a few defense witnesses fend of a conviction.