“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.”
