Kyle Rittenhouse is seen in an undated booking photo. (Antioch Police Department/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)
KENOSHA, Wis. (CN) The trial of an 18-year-old charged with shooting three and killing two at a protest in Wisconsin last summer was delayed until November on Wednesday.
The state’s attorney and counsel for Kyle Rittenhouse agreed that more time was needed to conduct discovery in the closely watched case. The parties will next meet before Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder for a status conference on May 17 ahead of the new trial date slated for Nov. 1.
Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger told Schroeder at the top of Wednesday’s hearing that he and Rittenhouse’s lawyers decided after off-the-record conversations that they would not be ready for the original jury selection date of March 29.
Case postponed for 18-year-old charged with killing two people at Kenosha protests. //end headline wrapper ?>Kyle Rittenhouse. Photo from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office Office
The trial for
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old charged with killing two people and injuring another during a police brutality protest last summer in Kenosha, has been postponed to November.
The date was pushed back to Nov. 1 during his pretrial hearing Wednesday. Rittenhouse is facing five felonies, including first-degree reckless homicide, and was to stand trial beginning March 29.
Attorneys from both sides had been indicating they weren’t ready to begin this month.
Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney
From the early days of the pandemic to the fever-pitched and riotous last days of the Trump presidency, Wisconsin’s conservative movement was swept up in conspiracies and extremism in 2020.
Over the past year, online provocateurs, fringe lawyers, Republican lawmakers, wealthy donors, militias and right-wing media created a feedback loop that poisoned politics in Wisconsin and the country. This web became a mechanism of radicalization, starting with Facebook groups formed to organize protests against coronavirus lockdowns and culminating in the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Anti-government sentiment, mistrust of experts, racial dog whistling and flirtation with violence aren’t new to the American conservative movement. But in 2020, the Republican party leaned in. Whether they were attacking the officials and methods trying to protect people from a deadly virus or lying about election results, Republican officials in Wisconsin and across the country moved
In the Wisconsin judicial district made up of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, black men are more than 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than white men accused of similar crimes, a study shows.
According to data included in a draft report for the Wisconsin Court System, the three-county Second Circuit District has among the stateâs worst disparities in sentencing outcomes when comparing white men charged with crimes to black and Hispanic men.
The report was created by the court systemâs Office of Research and Justice Statistics, which presented the draft version in January 2020. The study â which states it is building on an analysis conducted by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack in 2016 â looked at differences by race for felony cases sentenced in Wisconsin between 2009 and 2018. The study looks at the state as a whole, and by outcomes in the stateâs nine judicial districts.
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In the Wisconsin judicial district made up of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, Black men are more than 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than white men accused of similar crimes, a study shows.
According to data included in a draft report for the Wisconsin Court System, the three-county Second Circuit District has among the stateâs worst disparities in sentencing outcomes when comparing white men charged with crimes to Black and Hispanic men.
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