Yes, and stuff that may be hard for the Defense team to bring into the trial any other way. May be ruled irrelevant, or maybe hard to corroborate or get witnesses to show up or testify.
Also just read he (basically) claimed he didn’t bring the rifle with him from IL but that it was in WI the entire time which was part of the media chatter (”he took a gun across state lines”) but not sure how that aspect played in the trial.
The strategy might be to dispel the media narrative and the jury’s pre-conceived notions of the falsehoods the media pushed.
This might be the slam dunk on the prosecution’s hopes that they will find him guilty despite the trial evidence.
Obviously the focus is on the murder charge, but Rittenhouse is also charged with a weapons violation that could bring a 5-year sentence.
It is a charge that should be dropped.
He did NOT bring that gun in from another state.....