The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has begun with the task of seating jurors who haven’t already made up their minds about the teenager who fatally shot two people and wounded a third during a night of anti-racism protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse appears at a pretrial hearing in Kenosha Circuit Court, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in advance of his trial which is scheduled to begin Nov. 1, in Kenosha, Wis. Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two of them, during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha in August 2020.
Rittenhouse, now 18, faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree homicide, one of several charges against him. His lawyers have argued he fired in self-defense., told attorneys he thinks picking the jury from 150 prospective jurors can be accomplished in a day. Schroeder told the potential jurors he would select 20 of them to hear the case, which is expected to last about two weeks. Ultimately, 12 will deliberate, and the rest will be dismissed as alternates. He said he will almost certainly not sequester the jury.
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