Kyle Rittenhouse heads to court to get gun used in shootings

Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer filed a movement asking prosecutors to return Rittenhouse's rifle and ammunition.
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MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin choose was set to listen to arguments Friday on whether or not prosecutors ought to return to Kyle Rittenhouse the assault-style rifle he used to shoot three individuals throughout a avenue protest.

Rittenhouse shot the boys through the protest in Kenosha in 2020. He killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz within the arm. Rittenhouse argued he fired in self-defense after every of the boys attacked him. A jury final yr acquitted him of a number of expenses, together with murder.

Rittenhouse’s lawyer, Mark Richards, filed a movement Jan. 19 asking prosecutors to return Rittenhouse’s rifle, his ammunition, his face masks and different clothes he was sporting the night time of the taking pictures to him. Richards and David Hancock, a spokesman for Rittenhouse, stated final week that Rittenhouse desires to destroy the rifle and throw the remainder of the objects away so nothing can be utilized as a political image or trophy celebrating the shootings.

Conservatives throughout the nation have praised Rittenhouse, saying he was defending Kenosha from far-left militants. Liberals have painted him as a trigger-happy vigilante.

The movement listening to was earlier than Choose Bruce Schroeder, the Kenosha County choose who presided over Rittenhouse’s trial.

Assistant District Lawyer Thomas Binger holds Kyle Rittenhouse’s gun as he offers the state’s closing argument in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial on Nov. 15, 2021.

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Demonstrators took to the streets for a lot of nights in Kenosha in August 2020 after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, within the again as Blake was resisting arrest throughout a home disturbance. The taking pictures left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.

The protests turned chaotic at occasions, with individuals burning buildings. Rittenhouse and his buddy, Dominick Black, joined a bunch of militia members to guard a used automotive lot on the night time of Aug. 25.

Rittenhouse, who was 17 at time and dwelling in Antioch, Illinois, was armed with an AR-15-style rifle that Black had bought for him earlier that yr as a result of he was too younger to purchase a firearm beneath Wisconsin regulation.

In keeping with the movement, Black had agreed that the rifle would develop into Rittenhouse’s property on his 18th birthday, Jan. 3, 2021.

Bystander and surveillance video reveals that simply earlier than midnight Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse down and Rittenhouse shot him as he closed in on him. He shot Huber after Huber swung a skateboard at his head and Grosskreutz after Grosskreutz ran as much as him holding a pistol. Everybody concerned within the taking pictures was white.

Black pleaded no contest to 2 citations earlier this month for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in alternate for prosecutors dropping two felony expenses of intent to promote a harmful weapon to an individual youthful than 18.