Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was 'at the center of their case,' only sharing the high-definition drone video footage on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played the enhanced drone footage to the jury during his closing statements and claimed that it showed Rittenhouse 'pointing his gun' at people – an assertion that opened the door to the state claiming Rittenhouse provoked the violence of the night of August 25, 2020.
Now, in the motion obtained by DailyMail.com, Rittenhouse's defense insist that the state only shared it with the defense after evidence had closed on Saturday November 13.
This is one just one of the grounds on which they have made a motion for a mistrial with prejudice filed by Kyle Rittenhouse's defense Monday afternoon.
Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was 'at the center of their case,' DailyMail.com reveal. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger initially shared low quality drone footage from the night of he shooting with the defense
The defense claims Binger only shared the high-definition footage after evidence had closed on Saturday. Rittenhouse's attorney Mark Richards and Corey Chirafisi are pictured in court
James Armstrong, a photographic expert in the Wisconsin State Crime Lab, testified about drone video during the trial last week
According to the motion, 'On November 5, 2021, the fifth day of trial on this case, the prosecution turned over to the defense footage of a drone video which captured some of the incident from August 25, 2020.
The jury is now deliberating the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse
'The problem is the prosecution gave the defense a compressed version of the video. What that means is the video provided to the defense was not as clear as the video kept by the state.'
The motion goes onto explain that the file size of the defense video is just 3.6MB while the prosecution's is 11.2MB.
The motion states that this larger file was not
