<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: The Unanswered Questions of the Rittenhouse Verdict
Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial ends in acquittal. The moral questions it raised linger.
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A jury found Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager, Wisconsin, not guilty on all counts. Given the narrow nature of self-defense laws, the legal case against Rittenhouse was difficult to prosecute, writers like . But this trial was always imbued with much deeper moral and political questions.
