{"id":7024,"date":"2021-11-18T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2021-11-18T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:28:11","slug":"while-on-verdict-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/while-on-verdict-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"WHILE ON VERDICT WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And we all thought a \u201cnot guilty on all counts\u201d verdict would come in quickly in the Rittenhouse case, given the fact that every shot the kid fired was on video and showed him to be under deadly attack: attempted disarm by a violent mental patient, chased by a mob, kicked in the head with a shod foot, clubbed with a skateboard (think \u201cax handle with more sectional density\/ \u2019Magnum Force\u2019 version\u201d), and finally with a Glock 27 pointed at his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ace instructor John Murphy wrote at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pistol-forum.com\/showthread.php?50299-Kyle-Rittenhouse-Trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.pistol-forum.com,<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe prosecution must&#8217;ve attended Ayoob&#8217;s Lethal Force Instructor course, because they checked every dirty trick block Mas warned us about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No kidding.&nbsp;&nbsp;During the final argument alone, I lost count of the falsehoods about the law that were put in front of the jury.&nbsp;&nbsp;The implication that being armed automatically makes you the initial aggressor.&nbsp;&nbsp;The false statement that an armed man shooting an unarmed man can never be self-defense. (This is not the first lawyer who may have gotten through three years of law school without being familiarized with \u201cdisparity of force.\u201d)&nbsp;&nbsp;The characterization of a vandal and an arsonist as a \u201chero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prosecutor sweeping his audience with the muzzle of the death weapon, his finger on the trigger, trying to make them subconsciously threatened themselves by the man he\u2019s trying to convict.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And through it all, the implication that having an AR15 automatically makes you a bad person, a belief that literally got one prospective juror removed from consideration after she said the same in&nbsp;<em>voir dire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list goes on. I\u2019ve probably left some out.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your discussion is invited.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019ll be back when we have a verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we all thought a \u201cnot guilty on all counts\u201d verdict would come in quickly in the Rittenhouse case, given the fact that every shot the kid fired was on video and showed him to be under deadly attack: attempted disarm by a violent mental patient, chased by a mob, kicked in the head with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}