Kyle Rittenhouse won’t be returning to Kenosha County anytime soon as an Illinois judge granted a 30-day delay in his extradition hearing.
Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, Ill. was charged Thursday with homicide and attempted homicide. There is a $2 million bond attached to the warrant seeking his return to Wisconsin. He is being held in a juvenile detention facility in Illinois.
At an extradition status hearing in Lake County Friday, a public defender representing Rittenhouse asked for an extension to allow the teen to seek a private attorney. He is due back in court in Illinois Sept. 25 for another status of extradition hearing.
Rittenhouse did not appear at Friday’s hearing at her request. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hearing was held remotely, and only a portion of the hearing was visible to the public online.
Rittenhouse is charged with first degree intentional homicide for the death of 26-year-old Silver Lake resident Anthony Huber, attempted first-degree intentional homicide for the shooting of Gauge Grosskreutz, 26, of West Allis, and first-degree reckless homicide for the death of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha. He is also charged with two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety for shooting his AR-15-style rifle toward other people who were not injured, and with possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.
He is alleged to have come to Kenosha after a call for private militias to come to the city after protests and rioting broke out following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha Police officer Sunday.
As Rittenhouse has been embraced by right wing commentators and gun rights advocates.
High-profile conservative attorneys L. Lin Wood and John Pierce and the law firm Pierce Bainbridge, which has represented President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump adviser Carter Page, have issued statements saying they are putting together a legal team to represent the teenager.
No way in hell can this kid be charged with premeditated murder, for that matter any murder. Especially while at a rally who is defecating on our Bill of Rights.
These commie ass hats have a real problem on their hands. Now, more than ever, Kyle Rittenhouse is looking like a hero..
We have Bill Gates administering unproven vaccines on people in Africa, killing thousands, he just walks?
This 17 year old kid is going to change the game. Huge…if he does one day in prison because of an illegal conviction, fire is going to rein down…
The AR-15 had nothing to do with it, if anything it did the job it was supposed to do.
Just like a surgeons knife.
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Ah, but in upside down zio-world, Mark, expect the “unexpected”! 😉