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“We need to dramatically improve our pitching, I don’t think there’s any question about that,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said in October during his end-of-season news conference. “Our starting rotation simply wasn’t good enough this year to compete. … If you look at the whole season, there’s no question that we have to acquire more pitching, better pitching this winter. I think that’ll be the No. 1 priority because, said simply, that was the downfall of this season was that our rotation was short, and we weren’t effective enough in terms of run prevention.”

The defense, however, is allowed to present evidence, if it exists, of the three men engaging in violence that night. Though no witnesses have linked Huber or Grosskreutz to violent acts before the shooting, several have portrayed Rosenbaum as behaving erratically, lighting a dumpster on fire and swinging a chain at various points.

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“The lawyers have to almost embrace those other outside issues, those political, racial, social economic issues, because those were factors in the decision-making process and how Rittenhouse and witnesses reacted to different situations,” said McMahon, who is now in private practice. “The challenge for the lawyers, the judge and the jurors is to not let those other factors override the facts of the case. It’s going to take a really focused effort to get the jury to focus on what happened here, but those outside factors are going to have an impact on the jurors’ decision-making process.”