Jury Will Deliberate for 2nd Day in Rittenhouse Trial
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is returning for a second day of deliberation Wednesday after failing to reach a verdict Tuesday.
Rittenhouse himself selected the 12 jurors Tuesday by blindly picking pieces of paper out of a tumbler. Prosecutors and defense lawyers made their closing arguments Monday night. The 18-year old is accused of murdering two men and wounding a third during protests and violent riots in Wisconsin last summer. If convicted, Rittenhouse could face life in prison.
The trial and anticipation of a verdict has been covered thoroughly across the spectrum. Many reports from left- and center-rated sources focused on the judge's purportedly unusual decision to let Rittenhouse pick the jurors and quoted sources who raised concerns about it. Stories from the left also often highlighted the possibility for civil unrest and violence following the verdict. Some coverage from right-rated outlets framed the prosecution's case as weak and framed a not guilty verdict as likely.
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From the Right
Kyle Rittenhouse defense accuses prosecutors of withholding key videoKyle Rittenhouse’s legal team accused prosecutors of holding back key video footage that is at the heart of their case in a formal motion for a mistrial, court documents show.
Lawyers for the 18-year-old Kenosha gunman already called for a mistrial during the hearing, and filed a formal seven-page request less than an hour before closing arguments Monday, The Chicago Tribune noted.
The motion argues any conviction should be overruled and seeks to forbid any chance of a retrial if Rittenhouse is cleared of the five felonies he faces for the deadly triple shooting at last...
From the Left
'Piece of theater': Legal experts weigh in on Kyle Rittenhouse’s seating jurors deciding his fate by lotteryKyle Rittenhouse could spend the next several decades of his life behind bars or soon walk free from a Wisconsin courthouse.
And pieces of paper he grabbed at random with his right hand will have played a major role in the life-turning outcome.
In an "interesting piece of theater" in his high-profile trial, Rittenhouse was directed Tuesday to blindly pick the seven women and five men who will decide whether he is criminally responsible for killing two men during protests last year over the police shooting Jacob Blake, a Black man in...
From the Center
Rittenhouse's mother asks for donations to legal fundKyle 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...
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