The AR-15-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used in the shooting of three men during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be destroyed.
During the hourlong hearing, Schroeder also ordered that county officials return Rittenhouse's $2 million bail and approved an agreement that would largely split the money between Richards' law firm and the #Fightback Foundation, which was formed by attorneys Lin Wood and John Pierce, who had initially represented Rittenhouse in the case.
An entity known as the Patent and Trademark Hedge Fund Trust had filed a motion also laying claim to the bail, arguing that as Pierce's creditors the fund was entitled to the money. Schroeder denied the motion, ruling that the fund's attorneys aren't licensed to practice in Wisconsin and have no legal standing in the state, and called the fund's investment in a criminal bond"bizarre.
Rittenhouse, 19, faced multiple charges, including intentional homicide, after fatally shooting two men during riots that erupted in Kenosha over a police officer shooting and paralyzing Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, died, and Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, was severely wounded.
Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, claimed he used the gun in self-defense because he was being attacked by a mob and feared for his life. A juryKyle Rittenhouse, center, with cap on backwards, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., Aug. 25, 2020, with another armed civilian. On Aug. 27, prosecutors charged Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois, in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha.
Just hours before closing arguments in the case, Schroeder threw out a misdemeanor charge against Rittenhouse of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. Rittenhouse's attorneys cited an exception in Wisconsin law that allows minors to possess shotguns and rifles as long as they’re not short-barreled.
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