The District this guy is running for. Not as gerrymandered as Crenshaw's district here, but in the ballpark
Kyle Rittenhouse a hero? (update - not guilty on all charges)
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The judge is a biased moron.
arstechnica.com
You shall not pinch to zoom: Rittenhouse trial judge disallows basic iPad feature
Judge: iPad pinch-to-zoom could “insert more items” into video of shootings.
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Biased? Maybe. Moron? Maybe.The judge is a biased moron.
You shall not pinch to zoom: Rittenhouse trial judge disallows basic iPad feature
Judge: iPad pinch-to-zoom could “insert more items” into video of shootings.
But he's not wrong - the pinch-to-zoom feature does interpolate data.
Which method the algorithm uses (cubic, linear gradient, AI) and how it affects the data would have to be determined by an expert.
ETA: found an AMA where the creator of the forensic video software the prosecution uses weighs in:
I guess all the tech gurus are wrong and you and the judge are right.
Rittenhouse defense incorrectly claims iPad pinch-to-zoom modifies footage
Lawyers for Kyle Rittenhouse inaccurately claimed an iPad's pinch-to-zoom would manipulate video, and the judge appears to have accepted the argument.
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As you might imagine, the defense's claim played fast and loose with the truth. Pinch-to-zoom on all devices may use algorithms, but only to scale the image — it doesn't change the content itself. This was an attempt to prevent the jury from getting a clearer view of the action, not a genuine challenge to the integrity of the video.
So you're going to listen to some tech writers rather than the people who actually create the software used in the trial. Got it.
Ridiculous. The judge IS a biased moron.
www.theverge.com
Judge buys Rittenhouse lawyer’s inane argument that Apple’s pinch-to-zoom manipulates footage
That’s not how it works.
LOL, that data interpolation is literally how zooming in works is inarguable.
Whether or not it should be allowed as evidence is above my pay-grade.
The pinch to zoom does adds (or maybe better multiplies) pixel when it zooms. But the judge is still a moron for believing it's done by logarithms.
I'm pretty surprised there's apparently no case law wrt this being admissible data at this point. It's a fair point by the defense unless the precise algorithms used are known and fully understood, and it appears this hasn't come up in a trial before.
And the judge gave them about 20 minutes to find an expert to testify. Ridiculous.
The prosecution should have just used MS Paint or something similar to zoom.
They could have just gone down to home depot and bought some paint to alter the image.
Does it not interpolate? Honest question, I don't know.
If so, then that's the no-brainer answer.
No. Open something in MS Paint and zoom down far enough and you'll see the squares.
With Photoshop, it can merge an averaged color from adjacent pixels into a pixel.
Modern cell phones actually do interpolate, using data from different cameras in the phone to come up with an image superior to digital zoom (cropping) but inferior to optical zoom...
If the jury deadlocks on one charge, the prosecution would have the chance to retry the case only for that charge. The rest of the verdicts would stand as decided.
Also, the judge still hasn't ruled on the defense's motion to declare a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct:
Kyle Rittenhouse defense team seeks mistrial, claiming prosecutorial misconduct
KENOSHA, Wis. — As Kyle Rittenhouse’s jury officially began its deliberations Tuesday, a piece of unfinished business still hung over the case. The defense filed a motion ahead of Monday’s closing arguments asking for a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct. The request will be moot if the...
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