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Day 2 of jury deliberation in the Rittenhouse trial ends again without a verdict

Jurors spent 46 minutes reviewing two crucial videos — an FBI surveillance recording and footage shot from a drone. Rittenhouse's lawyers called again for a mistrial, this time over the drone video.
Kyle Rittenhouse, left, and his attorney Corey Chirafisi, during a hearing Wednesday.

As the jury deliberated for a second day in the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who fatally shot two people during unrest last year in Kenosha, Wis., defense attorneys petitioned for a mistrial over a key piece of video evidence that could be crucial to the prosecution's case.

The mistrial request — which is the defense's second of the trial — came Wednesday afternoon after jurors asked to review a handful of videos from the case.

That included a video introduced by prosecutors halfway through the trial. Filmed by a

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