Nadler said he wants the DOJ to look into the "VERDICT." I certainly hope that includes looking into both the prosecution and the defense, and whether the prosecutor violated Rittenhouse's CIVIL RIGHTS:
The 5th amendment was obviously violated when Binger implied Kyle's silence after arrest and up to the trial was a tactic to listen to all the testimony against him before giving his version of the story. The judge slammed Binger for that.
The prosecution tampered with and altered video evidence they provided to the defense. They claim it was unintentional -- that an email program must have done that. Email programs may resample a audio/video file to create a compressed version for transmission, but the version the defense had was also CROPPED, removing part of the video at the borders. There were two applications on the prosecutor's laptop: Handbrake and FormatFactory. Both are used to resize, crop, and encode video. When I send someone a large file, I include in the message the filename, file type, and exact size, so the recipient can verify they received it intact.
The prosecution chose to indict one of the key witnesses, nicknamed and referred to throughout the trial as "Jump-Kick Man" -- the guy who jumped over Kyle while kicking him square in the face as Kyle was on his back. Turns out (allegedly), the name of the man was already known to the prosecution during the trial, and they never gave that name to the defense, nor did they call him as a witness. Maurice Freeland is a 39-year-old career criminal and convicted felon who has open charges of domestic violence, disorderly conduct, and criminal damage to property against him. Reportedly, Freeland met with prosecutors and told them he wanted immunity before taking the stand, which means the state knew all along who “Jump-Kick Man” was.
The prosecutors argue that convicted child rapist Joseph Rosenbaum had only lunged at Rittenhouse after he aimed his gun at accused rapist Ziminski. The state made sure that Ziminski, an eye witness who could clear all of this up, was unavailable to testify in the Rittenhouse trial because he is currently being prosecuted for arson. Prosecutors charged Ziminski with arson and then delayed his trial so he wouldn’t be available to testify in the Rittenhouse trial.
The state tried every dirty trick they could think of, some of which fly in the face of the Constitutional protections guaranteed to the accused. I think if the DOJ doesn't include them in their investigation report, they are complicit, and Kyle should sue the city, the state and the feds for civil rights violations.