"After the jury departed, Rittenhouse attorney Mark Richards told the judge he feared such a move would lead to jurors looking things up in the dictionary or doing their own research at home."
So apparently both sides lawyer aren't exactly the brightest bulb. Can't possibly have the jury think over their decision and get informed on the law involved in the case they're asked to decide.
Pretty sure the jury is supposed to ask the judge for contextualization and clarification, not just find it out for themselves. It's considered part of external bias. You're supposed to be pure of that sort of thing when you become a juror and since they have no way of verifying the veracity of the place they got their information on the law from without subpenaing their browser searches or something and they could be reading Q posts or something they go with just not letting em look up things without court guidance.
I think the law says if the gun is of a specific size or smaller and the kid is over 16 they just get to have it, period. Otherwise the prosecution wouldn't consent to the gun possession charges being dismissed as they did. They'd object to it instead.It's really simple, you can only be armed under 18 if you're hunting, training in the military, or at a target range. So by being out with a gun he has to be saying he's doing one of those three.