The prosecutor and defense lawyers made their final statements in the criminal trial in which Kyle Rittenhouse faces homicide charges. The prosecutor played the video discussed in my previous post to this list.
Now the defense attorneys are complaining that the prosecutor had sent them a compressed version which is inferior in quality to the version played in court. They claim that the difference is significant, and have brought a motion to the presiding judge asking him to declare a mistrial. In short the defense lawyers would like to have the trial canceled. The jurors understand the significance of this video and have requested that they may see it again while deliberating on the final verdict. The judge states that they may see it as many times as they see fit. I do not know whether the jurors are allowed to use video enlarging features on their own discretion. Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge to declare mistrial over video https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-wisconsin-homicide-kenosha-0e4b6ad5a286af9ddbb8c8546550f1dc KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- Kyle Rittenhouse's attorneys asked the judge on Wednesday to declare a mistrial, saying they received an inferior copy of a key video from prosecutors and would have approached things differently if they had received the higher quality video earlier. Judge Bruce Schroeder did not immediately rule on the request, which came after jurors deliberating for a second day at Rittenhouse's murder trial asked to review video evidence. Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi said they initially received a compressed version of a video taken by drone that the prosecutors played for jurors during closing arguments. Prosecutors said it showed Rittenhouse pointing his gun at protesters before being chased by the first man he shot and killed during a night of turbulent street protests against racial injustice in Kenosha in the summer of 2020. --- Are there drones that store videos in uncompressed formats? I understand that without compression, huge data storage devices would be necessary. It is possible that the prosecutors had sent a high compression version to the defense lawyers and later showed a low compression version in court.