Rittenhouse’s Winning Strategy Rested on Tear-Filled Testimony

Lawyers for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager acquitted on all charges for having killed two people at a tumultuous Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin last year, say they knew his personal testimony would be key to his defense because they tested mock juries for it.

“We did two different juries, one with him testifying, one without, and he did substantially better” with the jury when he testified, said defense attorney Mark Richards. “That sealed it.”

That came as no surprise to Alan Dershowitz, a retired professor of law at Harvard with long experience in criminal cases, who said the ...