“As the jury deliberated for a second day in the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who fatally shot two people during unrest last year in Kenosha, Wis., defense attorneys petitioned for a mistrial over a key piece of video evidence that could be crucial to the prosecution’s case.
“The mistrial request — which is the defense’s second of the trial — came Wednesday afternoon after jurors asked to review a handful of videos from the case.
“That included a video introduced by prosecutors halfway through the trial.
“Filmed by a drone from roughly a block away, the footage shows an overhead view of the first deadly incident on the night of Aug. 25, 2020, in which Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, after being chased through a used car lot.”
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