![]() ![]() ET: This story has been updated with more background information. Richards said Rittenhouse is eager to "get on with his life" and will likely be moving out of the Kenosha area over safety concerns. "In Wisconsin, if you don't put a client on the stand, you're going to lose, period." "We had a mock jury, and we did two different juries, one with him testifying and one without him testifying, and it was substantially better when he testified," Richards told reporters outside of the Kenosha courthouse. The teen was notably overcome with emotion during his testimony, forcing the courtroom to break for a brief recess after he began hyperventilating on the stand.įollowing the verdict, Mark Richards, one of Rittenhouse's attorneys, said there was no question about whether the teen would testify. Rittenhouse, who took the stand on Wednesday, told the jury, "I didn't do anything wrong. He said he had traveled to Kenosha from his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, to help protect local businesses that had been destroyed or looted amid the social unrest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Demonstrations sprang up nationwide in protest of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict Friday night, after a Wisconsin jury found the 18-year-old not guilty for the killing of two men and the wounding of.
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