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The man who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the AR-15 ... Just hours before closing arguments in the high-profile case, Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out a misdemeanor charge against Rittenhouse of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon.
This will be interesting to see if Judge Schroeder okays the stipulation by Fight Back and Kyle. Under WI law, the money goes back to the person who posted it. The bail was posted by John Pierce through his firm’s trust account. Might be a fight.
Steph Bazzle reports on social issues and religion for Hill… Ricky Schroder, the actor who helped bail out Kyle Rittenhouse, is now declaring his intentions regarding Joe Biden’s inauguration. On the Parler social network, Schroder said he plans to be arrested for protesting on January 20.
The Illinois teenager won full acquittals in criminal court but the possibility of civil lawsuits could still loom. As an 18-year-old online college student, Kyle Rittenhouse wouldn't appear to have deep pockets to pay for any award should he face —and lose — a civil trial in the shooting deaths of the two men he was acquitted of killing on Friday.
Rittenhouse had been charged with first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment. Another misdemeanor weapons possession charge had been thrown out by the judge in the case.
His attorney told reporters that his previous attorneys wanted to use the teen for a "cause."
Wood left the case to unsuccessfully litigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, while Pierce was let go by the teen's family.
Richards said he told the teen when they first met that he wasn't going to fight over anything that wasn't tied to his legal defense.
Wood and Pierce were Rittenhouse's first attorneys and haven't been shy about their pro-Trump politics.
In a statement to Insider on Friday evening, Pierce said that they disclaimed any entitlement to the bail money.
Richards said he was hired by Rittenhouse's prior attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce.
Kyle Rittenhouse looks on as John Black, use-of-force expert, testifies during Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Nov. 11, 2021. (Mark Hertzberg/Pool via REUTERS)
KENOSHA, Wis. – Kyle Rittenhouse’s future went to a 12-person Wisconsin jury Tuesday, in a murder trial whose outcome has local residents bracing for renewed protests and Americans from coast to coast waiting for the verdict on the edge of their seats.
Rittenhouse, who is White, shot three White men, two of them fatally. The defense has argued self-defense while prosecutors have accused him of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felonies in connection with slayings. A sixth charge, for allegedly having the rifle illegally in his possession, was dropped. Pierce had predicted it would be dismissed more than a year ago.
They maintain that he opened fire only in self-defense — after being attacked by a group of grown men .
Prosecutors in court argued that the teen provoked the shootings by showing up with a gun.
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But this week, more than a year after the deaths of Huber and Rosenbaum, windows remain boarded up. Storefronts remain closed. Charred remnants of unidentifiable objects are melted into the sidewalk.
Pierce stepped down from the #FightBack Foundation in September 2020 to “100% focus on freeing Kyle and avoid any appearance of $$ conflict,” Reuters reported. However, just six months later the Rittenhouse family fired him.
Veteran criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Mark Richards has been the lead on Rittenhouse’s defense team since January 2021. According to his bio on the Richards & Dimmer Criminal Defense Attorneys website, Richards, 59, has been a criminal defense attorney for over 30 years.
In a preview of the documentary footage, Rittenhouse can be seen talking about his feelings after the jury unanimously found him not guilty of all charges, including intentional homicide.
Richards said the money for the attorneys was “crowdfunded” and that the people with the final decision on the film crew were Rittenhouse’s family and adviser.