The Daily Beast reports:
The judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin slammed media coverage of the highly-divisive case on Wednesday.
“There are people on the media, on reputable sites, that are saying things that are totally bizarre,” Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder said in a sprawling rant after sending the jurors out of the room.
The diatribe came amid discussions on whether to play a video of the unrest in the city last summer to jurors in which the narrator continually referrers to Rittenhouse and others around him as “militia members.”
Judge Schroeder again goes after some of the media for their coverage of the trial bc he says it’s important for Kenosha and the country to have confidence in the verdict: “There are people on the media, on reputable sites, that are saying things that are totally bizarre.” pic.twitter.com/d19sIqYW3B
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 3, 2021
Schroeder cited CNN’s Jeffery Toobin and “another attorney there” as an example of media not being familiar with Wisconsin cases and rules.
ADA Binger said he hasn’t paid attention to what Toobin has said on the network: “It is of no concern to me.”
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 3, 2021
Judge now talking about what legal pundits said on CNN. Doesn’t agree with what was said. Im not sure what the point of this is for any legal argument in a court of law. Judge seems overly concerned about what’s happening outside the courtroom on TV.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) November 3, 2021
The judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin slammed media coverage of the highly-divisive case on Wednesday: “There are people on the media, on reputable sites, that are saying things that are totally bizarre.” https://t.co/G5S4w5sdkK
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 3, 2021