Well this is terrible:
After eight months of affiliation with the Rittenhouse case, Barnes, a nationally acclaimed defense attorney, said lead attorney Mark Richards won’t share jury information or allow any of Barnes’s 20-person team of experts into the courtroom to observe the jury selection.
Barnes says he was promised that he and his team would be involved in the actual jury selection. The team includes Barnes’s hand-picked “multiple body language people, multiple data people” and jury selection experts.
Barnes alluded to trouble on the defense team during an interview earlier in the week but confirmed in a Sunday night livestream that he is now officially off the team.
On Tuesday I’m told – I’m in Kenosha, a bunch of other people are in Kenosha, people are on their way to Kenosha that the local attorney, Mark Richards, not only won’t share the information we need to aid in jury selection, but won’t even allow anybody even in the courtroom to assist with jury selection. Won’t even allow it. There was no requirement that he take any of the advice being given, but he won’t even allow the advice to be given or the information to be provided.
Go here to read the rest. Pride is the predominant sin of my profession.
Sabotage for pay????
Barnes also said on the Viva stream that he has stopped advocating for people to donate to Rittenhouse because he’s no longer confident of where the money is going.
This concerns me as I can’t tell if the defense team is incompetent, malicious, or just plain scared. It doesn’t help I just listened to a podcast on how the Jan 6th protesters are getting screwed by the court system.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/01/how-america-could-lose-free-speech-and-due-process/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/26/law-firms-that-raced-to-defend-terrorists-in-gitmo-leave-j6-defendants-out-to-dry/
Pride. The ultimate “root sin” of all sins.
Viva/Barnes highlight on the issue.
https://youtu.be/e7p7xL9IYvk