Dirty little game that may be played:
Find Rittenhouse guilty of the lesser charge. Defuses the mob, they go home and then the verdict gets overturned in the appeal a few months later. The attention of the mob is that of a gnat and by that time the mob will have moved on to their next outrage.
Find Rittenhouse guilty of the lesser charge. Defuses the mob, they go home and then the verdict gets overturned in the appeal a few months later. The attention of the mob is that of a gnat and by that time the mob will have moved on to their next outrage.