#Judge Bruce Schroeder

[odinsblog]

I told y’all about the Krassenstein brothers: Elon Musk has monetized their twitter accounts and now they’re singing the “both sides” bullshit for clicks. It’s only a matter of time until they round the corner into Libertarian, GOP-lite, Bill Maher + Glenn Greenwald territory.

As far as the Kyle Rittenhouse case goes, it’s extremely disingenuous for Ed to omit the fact that the judge bent over backwards to help Rittenhouse, and inexplicably threw out the charges that would he would have almost certainly been found guilty of—as a minor, 17-year-old Rittenhouse did not, by law, have a legal right to have that gun on his person. Not to mention, he crossed state lines to “protect” 🙄 a store where he was recorded days earlier saying how he wished he had a chance to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters. (Judge Schroeder didn’t allow that part in either).

Does anyone else remember how Judge Bruce Schroeder allowed Rittenhouse to hand pick his jurors??

Or does anyone else remember how Bruce Schroeder casually allowed a person who killed two people to stand directly behind him—without handcuffs? Tell me that image didn’t influence the jurors.

There was sO fucking much wrong with that case. The judge practically instructed the jurors to find Rittenhouse not guilty. It was anything but a fair trial.

Anyway, it might take years for the Krassenstein’s to completely show their true conservative neoliberal colors, but 1) it IS coming, and 2) don’t say you weren’t forewarned.

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Dominick David Black, Wisconsin inmate 717987, Kenosha County (Wisconsin) inmate 161466, born 2001; released to probation August 2023

Vehicle Operator Flee/Elude Officer

Dominick Black, a friend of Kyle Rittenhouse who faced two felony charges for buying a rifle used by Mr. Rittenhouse, has agreed to plead no contest to lesser charges in a deal.

Mr. Black, 20, bought an AR-15-style rifle in May 2020 for Mr. Rittenhouse, who was then 17 and too young to buy the gun legally. Mr. Rittenhouse used the rifle when he killed two people and wounded a third during an altercation amid protests in Kenosha, Wis. Mr. Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of homicide and other charges after a trial, testified that he was acting in self-defense when he fired the weapon.

Mr. Black, who was a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Rittenhouse’s widely followed homicide trial, was initially charged with two counts of intent to sell a dangerous weapon to a minor, a felony. Under the agreement made public, Mr. Black agreed to plead no contest to a noncriminal county ordinance violation of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, his lawyer, Anthony Cotton, said during a brief hearing.

In the Kenosha courtroom where Mr. Rittenhouse’s trial took place, Judge Bruce Schroeder of Kenosha County Circuit Court accepted the plea agreement and imposed a fine of $2,000.

Thomas Binger, an assistant district attorney in Kenosha, said in court that he believed it was appropriate to dismiss the felony charges, given Mr. Black’s willingness to cooperate in the case, and to impose a fine.

“I believe that does serve as a form of punishment and a deterrence to anyone going forward into the future,” Mr. Binger said. “I do want to close by saying that I do believe that it is a serious offense to purchase a firearm for someone who is not legally able to do so. Our office will continue to vigorously prosecute those offenses. And it is still our office’s position that 17-year-olds should not go armed with firearms.”

During Mr. Rittenhouse’s trial, Mr. Black told the court that he bought the gun on a trip with Mr. Rittenhouse to northern Wisconsin, where Mr. Black’s family owned a hunting property, and stored it at his stepfather’s house in Kenosha for Mr. Rittenhouse. He said that on the day of the shooting in August 2020, as protests were unfolding in Kenosha, he and Mr. Rittenhouse brought their guns from Mr. Black’s stepfather’s house and drove downtown, where they cleaned graffiti and, at night, guarded used-car lots.

Mr. Black got to know Mr. Rittenhouse when he was dating McKenzie Rittenhouse, one of Mr. Rittenhouse’s sisters.

Subsequent to the Rittenhouse events, Mr Black has been arrested 4 times, three times in 2022 and once in 2023,  He has been charged with operating a vehicle with a suspended license, operating an unregistered vehicle, operating without insurance, fleeing LEO, bail jumping, operating at excessive speeds,  As of June 1, 2023 he is in jail on a conviction related to fleeing an LEO.  He was sentenced to 6 months. He was released to probation in August 2023.

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[thatrickmcginnis]

1987 Film Festival: Bruce Weber, Andy Minsker and Barbet Schroeder

1987 was far from the busiest year shooting portraits at the film festival - only three subjects over two shoots. I would, in coming years, have much busier festivals, but 1987 was always remembered as the year I photographed Bruce Weber. Weber was probably one of the most famous photographers in the world at this time, one of a trio of shooters (along with Herb Ritts and Matthew Rolston) who seemed to dominate fashion, advertising and editorial work in the U.S. and Europe. I found Weber the most interesting, mostly because of how avidly he embraced a retro style in his work - so many of his photos look like they could have been shot at any time between the '30s and the early '60s. He was at the film festival with his first feature film - Broken Noses, a documentary about a young boxer - and arrived with considerable notoriety, so much that I'm not sure how I ended up getting time with him for a session.

I shot with my Mamiya C330 TLR, and didn't give myself a safety net with a backup 35mm camera. Judging by the lighting I'd also finally invested in a light stand and an umbrella by now, though it was still being used to crudely fill the space with enough light to give me a decent f-stop. I was intimidated by Weber, though he was more than friendly and cooperative, and didn't try to stage direct the shoot as most other photographers will when they become the subject. Most of the frames project a wariness, though I did get one of his trademark million dollar smiles for a single shot.

Bruce Weber arrived at the film festival in 1987 with an entourage - a collection of attractive young people who looked like they were ready to be photographed at any moment. (One of them was Lisa Marie Smith, the statuesque model and actress who would later appear in Mars Attacks as the Martian seductress when she was the girlfriend of director Tim Burton.) Among them was Andy Minsker, the Golden Gloves championship boxer who was the star of Weber's film Broken Noses, and I made sure I included him in the session I did with Weber. He seemed a bit overwhelmed by it all, and I think my portraits seemed to capture this more than anything else. Minsker would retire from boxing with a shattered hand after 344 matches; by 2004 he was back in Oregon running his own car detailing shop, and in 2015 he was training young boxers.

My other shoot at the 1987 film festival was with director Barbet Schroeder, there to present his new film Barfly, a biopic about the writer Charles Bukowski starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. A Swiss national born in Iran and raised in Colombia and France, Schroeder was a true cosmopolitan who made his reputation with films like La Vallee, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait and Koko: A Talking Gorilla, and would go on to direct Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female and Desperate Measures. I found him enigmatic, with an unsettlingly direct gaze, and whether by accident or plan I highlighted this by photographing him in front of a sunny window at the hotel, trying to achieve the clean, bright "high key" effect I'd seen in studio shots by serious photographers, which seemed a hallmark of real professionalism to me.

[iphonegreys]

The looter goes in for himself

#The looter goes in for himself trial

When the owner of the lunch counter that he frequents raises prices, Bill enlists his friends to open a lunch business of his own. With Tammany Young, Fay Tincher, Tod Browning, Fatty Crane. Meanwhile, the defense will be allowed to refer to the three people Rittenhouse shot as "arsonists," "looters" or "rioters" so long as they took part in those activities, Schroeder ruled - a decision prosecutor Thomas Binger called "a double standard. Bill Goes in Business for Himself: Directed by Edward Dillon. (Though not universal, it is not unheard of for judges to feel that the word "victim" presupposes the defendant's guilt.) And I think 'alleged victim' is a cousin to it," Judge Bruce Schroeder said on Monday, asking prosecutors to instead use the terms "complaining witness" or "decedent" to refer to those shot by Rittenhouse. "The word 'victim' is a loaded, loaded word. Adidas store even though he encountered police at the scene who let him go. In a proceeding about the ground rules for the upcoming trial, prosecutors and defense lawyers debated whether certain language, witnesses or evidence would be allowed. A 22-year-old man handed himself in to police after looting an Adidas shop.

#The looter goes in for himself trial

Prosecutors in the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot and killed two protesters last year in Kenosha, Wis., will not be able to refer to the people he shot as "victims," a judge has ruled, while defense attorneys may be able to call them "arsonists" or "looters." Prosecutors decried as a double standard the decision to allow the people Kyle Rittenhouse shot to be referred to "arsonists," "looters" or "rioters."

[tonkiregister]

Palmyra atoll murders

#Palmyra atoll murders movie

#Palmyra atoll murders trial

#Palmyra atoll murders trial

2 In Count IV, Partington alleged that a statement in the book criticizing him for taking an overly submissive stance toward the judge presiding over Walker's trial cast him in a false light. In Counts II and III, 1 Partington contends that the Book Defendants defamed him and cast him in a false light by implying that he had not read the transcript of the state court theft trial (regarding the theft of the Grahams' boat) and that he was therefore an incompetent attorney. The action was filed in federal district court which had diversity jurisdiction.

#Palmyra atoll murders movie

Partington filed a damage claim against both the Book and Movie Defendants alleging defamation and false light claims. In 1991 CBS, in conjunction with a number of producers and the Epstein Productions company, produced a made-for-television movie based on Bugliosi's book. Following the trials, Bugliosi, along with Bruce Henderson, wrote And The Sea Will Tell, an account of his successful defense of Stearns. In the Palmyra Island murder cases, which took place in the federal district court in Honolulu, Partington's client was convicted and Bugliosi's acquitted. Bugliosi is a noted lawyer and author who prosecuted Charles Manson and wrote the best-selling book Helter Skelter, but whose efforts to attain elected political office were rejected by the voters of California. 906, 910 (D.Hawaii 1993) (describing the facts surrounding the Hawaii Supreme Court decision). Partington is a well-known criminal defense lawyer, although his “passive” handling of a controversial murder case once caused the Hawaii Supreme Court to reverse his client's conviction sua sponte. In 1981, the bones of Muff Graham were found washed up on Palmyra, and Stearns and Walker were indicted for her murder.Įarle Partington was appointed to represent Walker, while Stearns hired Vincent Bugliosi to represent her in a separate trial. By the end of October that same year, the Grahams had disappeared, and Stearns and Walker had returned to Hawaii sailing the boat that once belonged to the Grahams. Shortly after their arrival, Muff and Mac Graham arrived on a second sailboat. Once there, the couple discovered that the condition of their boat and the lack of adequate supplies prevented their return. During the summer of 1974, Stephanie Stearns and Buck Walker sailed to the island in an old sailboat. Palmyra is an uninhabited island located in the Pacific Ocean. This case arises from the notorious Palmyra trials and the publicity surrounding them. Nishimura, Honolulu, HI, for defendants-appellees. Johnson, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant. Decided: June 07, 1995īefore: TANG, SCHROEDER and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges. Wallace Jim Green Alan Epstein and James Henderson, Defendants-Appellees. United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.Įarle A.

[doncar09]

If you can call it a trial...

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As he watches some men exit a CVS store across the street, Kyle Rittenhouse can be heard saying that he wished he had his rifle so he could shoot them.

At least that's what prosecutors say is going on in the short video formerly posted on YouTube. It's part of a motion they filed to use the 29-second clip as "other acts" evidence in Rittenhouse's trial on charges he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third during protests in Kenosha last August.

The clip, taken 15 days earlier, appears to be taken by Rittenhouse or someone with him in a car, in the evening, parked across the street from a CVS store. You can see people inside, and a Black man as he jogs out of the store.

A voice that sounds like Rittenhouse says one of the men appears to be armed. Then, he says, "Bro I wish I had my (expletive) AR. l'd start shooting rounds at them."

In an affidavit accompanying the motion, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger says his office obtained the video last week. It does not say how or from whom.

The motion notes Rittenhouse had no personal interaction with anyone at the CVS store.

"Quite simply, the defendant saw something, jumped to a conclusion based on exactly zero facts, and then threatened to kill someone based on his baseless assumption and wrongful interpretation," the motion reads.

"The defendant’s understanding of the proper use of his “AR” and of deadly force is crucial to this case, and this video demonstrates that the defendant was eager to use deadly force in an unlawful situation."

Binger says the video is relevant to show Rittenshouse's state of mind when he fired the shots on Aug. 25, a crucial element to his self-defense claim.

"The video also demonstrates that the defendant fervently sought to insert himself as an armed vigilante into situations that had nothing to do with him. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the video proves that the defendant was ready and willing to use deadly force in a situation where it was completely unjustified."

In a second motion, Binger asks Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder to compel Rittenhouse to turn over the names of anyone who has donated to his legal defense, $2 million bail or purchased "Free Kyle" merchandise through his family's web site.

Those people, he argues, should not be allowed to serve on the jury for Rittenhouse's trial, currently scheduled for Nov. 1.

Binger said it would be fine if a master list were given only to Schroeder, and then if only names from Kenosha County were shared with the prosecution, which he said might want to further investigate whether those people or family or associates wind up in the pool of potential jurors.

Almost immediately after Rittenhouse, then 17, was charged in the Kenosha shootings, he became a cause célèbre among some conservatives and gun rights advocates and money flowed in from around the country.

Much of it went to the #FightBack Foundation, a Texas organization his then-lawyers Lin Wood and John Pierce had formed just two weeks prior to supposedly sue news media outlets. Wood later left the defense, and after the family fired Pierce, they started the Milo Fund, a Nevada LLC, that supposedly provides more control of donated funds by Wendy Rittenhouse, the defendant's mother. It's named after a dog Rittenhouse got while out on bail.

Earlier, Binger filed other motions to allow "other acts" evidence -- that Rittenhouse had hit a girl who was fighting with his sister, and that he had met with members of the Proud Boys at a Racine County tavern after his arraignment in January.

Rittenhouse's lawyers say he did not know the men at the tavern, or know they were Proud Boys or that the OK sign they made with their hands in photos they took with Rittenhouse is often used by white supremacists.

The earlier motions are scheduled for a hearing Sept. 17.

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"Ahead of Monday’s closing arguments, Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled Wisconsin’s open carry law is so confusingly written it can be interpreted to mean 17-year-olds can openly carry firearms as long as they’re not short-barrel rifles....

"The judge’s decision stunned prosecutors, who argued his interpretation of the law does not make sense. Under the judge’s interpretation, it would be illegal for a 17-year-old to carry brass knuckles in Wisconsin but permissible to carry a semi-automatic rifle."

Rittenhouse is a teen-age terrorist who killed two people and shot a third. He's going to walk free, and he will embolden white supremacist terrorists to kill again.

[angelx1992]

[icarusfellintomyarms]

God, this judge is gone do everything and anything to throw this case, huh?

[odinsblog]

Judge Bruce Schroeder is bending over backwards to ensure that Kyle Rittenhouse is set free. He’s all but an active member of the Rittenhouse defense team.

[doncar09]

Free as Fuck

[disillusioned41]

Democracy Now! Nov 11, 2021

White Supremacy Trial: From Rittenhouse in Kenosha to Killers of Ahmaud Arbery, Will They Go Free?

Kyle Rittenhouse took to the stand on Wednesday before his defense team asked for a mistrial with prejudice in the case. If a mistrial is granted, Rittenhouse cannot be tried again, though the judge did not immediately rule on the request and said jury deliberations could begin on Monday. Now 18 years old, Rittenhouse was 17 when he fatally shot two men and injured one with a semiautomatic rifle during racial justice protests last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is pleading not guilty to six charges, including homicide. While questioned, Rittenhouse broke down in tears, admitting to using deadly force but denying intent to kill his victims, and Judge Bruce Schroeder seemed to side with the defense at a handful of different points during Rittenhouse’s testimony. Meanwhile, the judge’s cellphone went off while the court was in session and played a ringtone for the song “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood, the opening song played at Donald Trump’s rallies. For more on the Rittenhouse trial, as well as the murder trial for the three men who killed Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, we speak with Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, and antiracist activist Bree Newsome Bass. Mystal says Judge Schroeder “has pre-judged the trial in favor of Rittenhouse,” and “that was obvious before the trial.” Newsome Bass says, irrespective of the trials’ outcomes, “the legal system itself is an affront to the notion of justice.” She adds, “What does justice even mean in a system that was established to strip Black people of their humanity and for the greater part of its history has never really held white people accountable for murdering Black people?”

[davidblaska]

Kyle Rittenhouse ran to innocence

Kyle Rittenhouse ran to innocence

Tried to retreat before trouble overtook him.  Kyle Rittenhouse can thank the prosecution for making his case  — that he shot three people in self-defense. Testimony and FBI aerial video — presented by the prosecution! — showed that the teenager ran away from the belligerent who had threatened to kill him, was chasing him and trying to seize his gun. That, it seems to the Werkes, is case closed.…