Rittenhouse's mother asks for donations to legal fund

Kyle Rittenhouse's mother appealed for donors on behalf of a defense fund set up to help pay her son's legal costs as the jury continues deliberations in his case, CNN reported.

Wendy Rittenhouse made the appeal in an email and estimated that Kyle Rittenhouse's legal costs for the month of November will amount to $110,000, according to CNN.

She called the court battle "an extremely uphill battle from the beginning" and said that her son's team could put up a "big fight" because of the support of "thousands of our fellow Americans," per CNN.

“Both the prosecution and my son Kyle's defense team have finished their closing arguments and I am beyond nervous,” she wrote in the email. 

“We have been but with the support of thousands of our fellow Americans we have put up a big fight,” she added.

The Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund, also known as FreeKyleUSA, said on its Twitter account in June that it had raised $464,111 since March 1.