Dec. 3 (UPI) — A Wisconsin take cling of on Thursday ordered Kyle Rittenhouse, an Illinois youngster charged with fatally taking pictures two of us at an August inform in Kenosha, to stand trial.
Rittenhouse is net page to be arraigned Jan. 5 in Kenosha County Circuit Court after County Commissioner Loren Keating sure the converse presented sufficient doable trigger of felony actions for the case to proceed to trial.
Rittenhouse was once released from penitentiary in November after posting $2 million bail.
The 17-year-worn faces two felony charges of execute in the deaths of Anthony M. Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and felony attempted execute for injuring Gaige Grosskreutz sooner or later of protests following the police taking pictures of Jacob Blake.
He also faces a misdemeanor cost of possession of a foul weapon whereas below the age of 18.
For the duration of Thursday’s preliminary listening to, Rittenhouse’s attorney, Designate Richards, sought to argue that his client acted in self-defense, presenting screenshots and surveillance video he acknowledged confirmed Rittenhouse being chased by a protester with a gun and struck with a skateboard by Huber whereas on the ground. He also presented a checklist showing Rosenbaum with a shirt maintaining his face, noting that committing against the law whereas masked is a felony act in Wisconsin
“The converse is attempting to effect forth a one-sided, stilted factor in of what came about to offer protection to any individual who doesn’t deserve the protection of the converse,” Richards acknowledged.
Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger accused Richards of attempting to introduce “a solid of characters” who were among “a entire bunch of of us” point to at the inform on the night of the shootings.
Binger also opposed Richards’ are trying to personal the associated rate of possession of a foul weapon pushed aside, asserting the 17-year-worn “went working around the streets of Kenosha after curfew with a extremely bad weapon.”
“We make now not have faith [minors] with these weapons thanks to precisely what came about in this case,” he acknowledged.
Keating dominated that the arguments introduced up by Rittenhouse’s defense must be taken up at trial.
