Developments in Rittenhouse case are highly unusual, experts say
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Rittenhouse was charged with killing two people during protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha last summer.
IMAGE: Protests in Wisconsin after Kenosha shooting (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The Kenosha County District Attorney's Office alleged Wednesday that Rittenhouse violated the conditions of his bond by failing to notify the court of his changed address and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest and to increase his bond by $200,000. It also asked the court to order Rittenhouse to update his address immediately. Rittenhouse was released from the Kenosha County Jail on a $2 million bond in November with donations made to his legal defense fund, largely from right-wing activists and conservative celebrities.
Rittenhouse's attorney, Mark Richards, alleged that police advised his previous attorney, John Pierce, not to provide the updated address. "While completing paperwork related to Kyle's release, Attorney Pierce was directly informed by a high-ranking member of the Kenosha Police Department not to provide the address of the Rittenhouse Safe House because of the numerous threats made against Kyle and his family," Richards said in a response to the motion. Counsel for Rittenhouse did not immediately respond to a request for comment by phone or email Thursday.
Kenosha police rebutted the claim Thursday, saying that while a police captain did speak with Pierce "regarding security concerns raised by Mr. Pierce, surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse release from custody," the captain didn't provide "instructions about how to fill out paperwork."
NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, said: "It's beyond unusual to lie to a court about where a client is residing. It is no excuse to say that somebody else told me to lie about that. That adds insult to ethical injury."
Rittenhouse's attorney said Wednesday that attorneys contacted an assistant district attorney in November to discuss providing a new address if the prosecutors agreed to a sealed filing but that the district attorney's office refused. Cavanaugh said that "it's unusual to deal with a defendant in a safe house" and that he could understand why Rittenhouse's defense wouldn't want the address made public, saying it's a reasonable request to ensure that Rittenhouse gets his day in court. Still, he said, authorities and prosecutors "have to know" where a murder defendant is, especially if he is receiving the threats alleged by Rittenhouse's defense. Kirschner said that when he was a prosecutor, his department kept the court apprised about where a defendant was, no matter what. A simple rule, he said, is: "Don't lie to the court." "There are so many appropriate ways to take care of the circumstances in the Rittenhouse case that don't involve telling the judge lies," he said.
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Rittenhouse's attorney, Mark Richards, alleged that police advised his previous attorney, John Pierce, not to provide the updated address. "While completing paperwork related to Kyle's release, Attorney Pierce was directly informed by a high-ranking member of the Kenosha Police Department not to provide the address of the Rittenhouse Safe House because of the numerous threats made against Kyle and his family," Richards said in a response to the motion. Counsel for Rittenhouse did not immediately respond to a request for comment by phone or email Thursday.
Kenosha police rebutted the claim Thursday, saying that while a police captain did speak with Pierce "regarding security concerns raised by Mr. Pierce, surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse release from custody," the captain didn't provide "instructions about how to fill out paperwork."
NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, said: "It's beyond unusual to lie to a court about where a client is residing. It is no excuse to say that somebody else told me to lie about that. That adds insult to ethical injury."
Gee! D'ya mean that the cops broke the law to help a murderer?
I'm shocked!
Shocked, I tell you...
Why wasn't he remanded to a cell? He's charged with first degree murder
You beat me to it.
Because it was self defense and there's a video to prove it. The only reason he was charged was because officials were afraid of more Leftwing violence. If being a Dumbass ever becomes illegal then Kyle Rittenhouse would be guilty just for walking around alone through a mob of thieves with a gun that's worth a thousand bucks on the black market but he's not a murderer. What kind of fool attacks a guy with a gun, I think they're guilty of being Dumbasses but they're also guilty of assault which is a crime.
What video?
You mean you've never seen the video? You need to see it, You'll see how Rittenhouse tried to run away from those people and obviously didn't want to shoot anyone. He was attacked repeatedly and only fired his weapon in self defense.
I'm not a lawyer, but one does not get a first degree murder indictment if it's in self defence
Do you really think they're going to get a conviction? The video shows that Rittenhouse was not the aggressor, he wasn't yelling at them or threatening them, he was running away from them they were the aggressors. They assaulted him.
They could indict a tomato if they wanted. If indictments were that rock solid they wouldn't have Trials.
I saw it. One guy was hitting him with a plastic sack...an empty plastic sack.
Look...the little punk had no business being there, it wasn't even his hometown. And a 17 year old kid walking around with a rifle is a story about to turn bad
As long as they indict the lettuce and bacon at the same time.
Evidence is brought before a grand jury to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial. If thre isn't then the prosecutor is handed a "no bill".
Don't you ever watch Law and Order?
I don't know if he's a punk but he is a Dumbass and anyone with any sense wouldn't have put themselves in that situation but he was still attacked and it was self defense. As for what he was hit with he was also kicked, punched, and hit with a skateboard by multiple assailants and the video shows he was just trying to run away.
Where is the vid. I would like to see it.
The only vid I saw was him being treated with kid gloves by the cops.
I have been in bar fights and never pulled a gun.
It is the resort of a coward.
I've never taken a gun to a Bar. When I was young and went to Bars I did so to get drunk with my friends and carrying a gun would have been stupid. I think if I had a gun and multiple people jumped me and tried to take the gun I would shoot them since there's a good chance if they got the gun from me they'd use it on me. People don't fight fair anymore and if multiple people come after you you can expect the worst. If Rittenhouse hadn't fired his weapon we'd likely still know his name but as the kid who was killed by his assailants when they stole his gun.
Was an example. I have been in a fight at a concert before...
That is just making up a scenario.
You realize what you are advocating for...That anytime anyone fells a little bit threatened, to open fire.
His life was not in danger, any more than anyone else out there.
And they all managed to survive.
Got anything that is not an 11 minute propaganda video?
It was not self defense. He walked right by cops after killing someone - people shouted as he walked by the cops 'he just shot and killed someone' and they let him walk.
There was no assault on Rittenhouse.
Just ignore that he was being shot at and a lunatic sex offender was trying to take his gun.
Is your plan to just ignore inconvenient facts and hope they go away?
Will a written timeline work for you? It only lasts as long as it takes you to read it.
Reading this, it seems as though there was a hell of a lot more people shooting than him.
I watched your propaganda video. Do you honestly think people wouldn't try to stop and apprehend someone that just shot someone?
Of course they would. Try to subdue the shooter.
Are you saying that the kid knew of his criminal history and took that into account?
I'm saying the kid new he was crazy, there's video of the guy calling Rittenhouse a "nigga" and telling Rittenhouse to shoot him, , and Rittenhouse tried to run away from him. Rittenhouse tried to avoid the confrontation which made the sex offender the aggressor. .
My point, people use to get into fights and still do. Only cowards feel the need to brandish a weapon every time they feel uneasy.
What a juror you'd make. Just call evidence propaganda and stick with your prejudices.
Stop using the 'sex offender' thing as some sort of justification. No one knew of his past and even if they did that would be more along the lines of premeditated.
Watch the eleven minute long video and tell me it is not propaganda.
It happens in the heat of the moment.
I have seen vid of civilians helping law enforcement in apprehension.
Do you think the people on the plane from 911 would have not tried because of choice of weapon...
My whole thing is, the kid should never have been there to begin with and from what I have read, his mother was filling his head with right wing bullshit. May not be true but from what I gather, not the most stellar parenting around.
Still not his business to have to be there.
People filling the kids head with some kind of rhetoric and getting him worked up and thinking he is out on some cause.
I don't know of anyone that is happy about burning or theft.
Things like that only take away from the true cause.
I don't blame anyone but him for his actions.
He had his head filled with rhetoric and decided to join some kind of vigilante group. This teenager decided to cross state lines and had another adult proceed to hand him a loaded weapon.
Even though I think his head was filled will a bunch of right wing talk, he himself made all of his choices. He chose to be there. He chose to brandish a loaded weapon. Every choice he made led up to everything that happened.
He does not or should not get absolved of all of his actions.
He made his choices. One does not get absolved because it was a bad choice.
So what was on his mind...oh yeah, I am going to 'protect' from the evil left wing rioters....
Every choice he made led to what happened.
Why was he not with his group and seemed to be alone.
Still, if I was in what I thought was a violent crowd, I wouldn't leave my group.
No matter what, he was a part of it.
So they chased him out of his group?
His bail should be forfeit.
EXACTLY.
I am not even sure why he is out on bail to begin with. He killed two people, almost 3.
So now they are going to let him get away with lying about the cops.
Either he is lying or the cops are lying. Reason enough for me to haul him in.
If he is fearing for his safety, he would be better off in custody.
Fuck the running around and hiding bullshit.