We entered the ninth day of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. This Illinois teenager was accused of killing two people and wounding a third of them during the violent protests in Kenosha last year because of the police Shot Jacob Black. 

In addition to the charges of intentional, reckless and attempted murder and reckless harm to others, the 18-year-old Rittenhouse was also charged with possession of a gun as a minor, which is a misdemeanor. On Tuesday, a charge of violating the curfew was dismissed.

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Please check the latest news below, as Journal Sentinel reporters and photographers covered the trial. You can also read what happened on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days of the experiment.

The trial is expected to last a week.  

During the trial on Thursday, Judge Bruce Schroeder made racial remarks, which caused outrage on social media. Many people think that this comment that is trying to make a joke is inappropriate.

"I hope that Asian food will not come...not on one of the ships along the Long Beach Port," Schroeder said in response to inquiries about lunch breaks.

The comment may be about what is happening on the west coast. Due to the reserves of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, a record number of cargo ships are waiting near the coast of California.

On Thursday afternoon, the prosecution and the defense started an hour-long argument about what would happen when the digital image was enlarged.

The point is whether zooming in the image will inject pixels of different colors into the image to fill the space. The defense was concerned that the software program of the National Crime Laboratory would add pixels of incorrect color.

A forensic imaging expert at the State Crime Laboratory testified that he did not know exactly how the program’s algorithm worked, or how the program chose which colors to assign the added pixels.

The lengthy struggle over pixels revolved around a slow and clear footage of drone footage, which prosecutors said showed Rittenhouse pointing a gun before he shot Joseph Rosenbaum in the parking lot. Two people.

The drone video was taken from a distance, and the image of Rittenhouse in the original shot was very small.

The defense argued that using a software program to zoom in on Rittenhouse’s image may result in an inaccurate description of the original lens and may show something that did not exist.

Assistant District Attorney James Klaus said the defense’s argument was “dishonest” because the software was widely used and reliable. Klaus also stated that the defense was taking advantage of Judge Bruce Schroeder's lack of technical knowledge.

Before letting the jury rest, Schroeder had an in-depth discussion with the lawyer on the pixel issue. He used a magnifying glass to view the printed enlarged image of Rittenhouse. He also stood close to the TV screen and watched several video clips in a row.

He finally said that he would leave this issue to the jury to decide.

The testimony of a forensic imaging expert marks the end of the evidence display. After the lawyer argued that the jurors were too tired to start their deliberations on Friday afternoon, Schroeder decided to give them a three-day weekend. Jury guidance and closing speeches will begin on Monday morning, and deliberations will begin on Monday afternoon.

After a brief additional questioning of expert witness John Black, the defense put the case on hold.

The prosecution and defense raised some clarifications about the way Black increased the brightness and contrast of some of the videos he analyzed.

After a short break on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutor is expected to show a witness to testify for the two photos.

Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder said he hopes to begin jury deliberations tomorrow afternoon after concluding the debate. But prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed that they would rather wait until the jury on Monday deliberated.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said he did not want to start the deliberation late Friday afternoon and enter Saturday.

Schroeder temporarily agreed to give the jury a three-day weekend, but said he might change his mind.

A cameraman who witnessed Kyle Rittenhouse filming Joseph Rosenbaum testified on Thursday that he saw Rosenbaum rushing to Rittenhouse before the filming.

Witness Andrew Hernandez said he made a living by filming civil unrest and other incidents for the "Real Voice of America" ​​website, even though he said he worked independently on the night of the Kenosha shooting.

Cross-examination was conducted after the testimony of the sequence of events, in which Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger questioned Hernandez's favorable bias against Rittenhouse.

Before the shooting, Hernandez said that he had witnessed Rittenhouse relaxing the tension between "Antifa and the mob" after a trash can caught fire on the road. He also said that many other witnesses testified that before the shooting, Rosenbaum actively shouted to people to shoot and used the N word.

He later said that he saw Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse in the car park parking lot and threw a bag at him. Hernandez said he then heard gunshots—from others nearby—and then saw Rosenbaum “pounce on him very clearly and Kyle opened fire.”

That night, Hernandez was equipped with a body camera and used his smartphone to shoot the video. In his testimony, Hernandez explained that he did not provide the footage to the police and only recently handed it over to the defense and prosecution.

Binge questioned him about this and pointed out that Hernandez was through a lens provided by a lawyer who was employed by the same company as one of the other witnesses of the defense. Bingge believes this indicates a prejudice, but Hernandez said he did not know the connection until Bingge pointed it out.

Binger further questioned Hernandez's objectivity, asking him whether he had posted any posts supporting Rittenhouse on social media before today. Hernandez agrees that he has.

Binger also pointed out that shortly after the Rosenbaum shooting, Hernandez posted a message on Twitter, part of which was that an armed citizen shot and shot an "attempt to destroy or burn a dealer." Thugs".

Hernandez was asked if he would comment on the matter shortly after the incident, but he denied doing so.

Expert witness John Blake testified Thursday morning that the entire duration of the three Kerrittenhouse shootings occurred within 2 minutes and 55 seconds.

Judge Bruce Schroeder allowed the use of force expert Blake to testify only on the chronological order of the Rittenhouse shooting on August 25, 2020.

In an inquiry by defense lawyer Mark Richards, Blake said that Rittenhouse fired four shots at Joseph Rosenbaum, all within three-quarters of a second.

The defense assumed that someone in the crowd shot, making Rittenhouse think that Rosenbaum or someone else was shooting him. Black said Rittenhouse turned and fired at Rosenbaum 2 and three-quarters after the first shot.

Black said that from the fourth time Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum to the point where he would meet and shoot Anthony Huber and Gage Grosskreuz, 28 passed. Second.

Black said that Rittenhouse kicked Rittenhouse in the face and shot him twice. Then he fired a shot at Huber and a shot at Gross Kruitz. Black said the four shots took place in about five and a half seconds.

During the cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger asked Black how much the defense had paid to testify. He said he charges $320 per hour and has already charged the defense more than $9,000.

After an important day in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Thursday’s witness testimony began to slow.

The defense summoned the position of John Black, an expert on the use of force. Black also has expertise in the field of video evidence, and he was asked to discuss the time elapsed since Rittenhouse shot and killed three men on August 25, 2020.

Black first demonstrated how electronic storage affects sound and images, and how he synchronized seven videos of the Rittenhouse shooting together to determine the elapsed time between different events. He said he believed that his estimate of time was correct within a tenth of a second.

When defense lawyer Mark Richards started playing the video, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger objected. He argues that Richards and Black are digging into issues beyond what Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled they could discuss before the jury.

Specifically, Binger objected to Black discussing the time interval between Rittenhouse’s yelling “friendly, friendly, friendly” and Rosenbaum’s throwing the bag at Rittenhouse before the shooting. He argued that Black was allowed to discuss the time between shots.

Schroeder said that the defense can continue to describe the timing of these events, but agrees with Binge on another point. Binge also argued that Black’s video report on the shooting included written descriptions, and the jury was not cautious in seeing these descriptions.

Schroeder agreed and stated that these characteristics cannot be used as evidence. The court is adjourned, so Black can adjust his report accordingly.

After Kyle Rittenhouse testified for most of Wednesday, expect some emotional disappointment at the end of the defense.

The next witness is likely to be John Black, an expert on the use of force from Oregon. He provided a sample of his testimony at the pre-trial hearing last month to determine whether he met the criteria for expert opinion testimony.

The prosecutor opposed any opinion on whether Rittenhouse's use of lethal force on the four on August 25, 2020 was reasonable. Judge Bruce Schroeder agreed that the jury could decide on its own.

But he said that Black’s analysis of shooting time and how humans’ tendency to focus on one of many things can distort the perception of time and distance.

On Wednesday, Binge said that Black’s new report is much more than that, but defense attorney Mark Richards said Black would only testify on permitted subjects and his written report would not become evidence.

But first, Schroeder may rule on a biased mistrial in Wednesday's defense motion. Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger implied that their client had invoked his right to remain silent after his arrest and tried to present some evidence that the judge had previously ruled inadmissible. Thus deliberately trying to invalidate the trial.

If Schroeder approved the trial with prejudice, Rittenhouse could not be retrial. Other lawyers said he was unlikely to take the case from the jury at such a late trial.

The defense said that in addition to Black, it may call more and shorter witnesses, and the state can then present counter-evidence, which will bring the case to Friday and postpone the deliberation until next week.

Rittenhouse stood up to defend himself on Wednesday, sometimes showing emotions and even crashing in the stands.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger spent more than an hour pressuring Rittenhouse, asking him why he carried a gun with him and the risks he felt in the crowd.

These questions are often repeated. As Binger moved through the crowd before the shooting, he focused on why Rittenhouse was carrying his AR-15, because Rittenhouse had been asking people if they needed medical care and testified that he planned to put out the fire.

Binge tried to argue that Rittenhouse must be carrying his gun because he thought he would be dangerous or unsafe.

"When you decide to take the AR-15 with 30 rounds to the 63rd Street car source, what do you think you need to guard against?" Binger asked.

"I don't think I need to protect myself," Rittenhouse replied.

As of 3 pm, Bingcu has not specifically asked Rittenhouse about the shooting.

Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder once told Bingcu to "speed up."

"I think we have covered most of it before," Schroeder said.

After the defense argued that enlarging the video on the iPad would change the image, Schroeder called a halt. The prosecutor wanted to "pinch" and zoom in on the drone video to better view the image.