As the prosecution rests, will Kyle Rittenhouse take the stand in his own defense?
KENOSHA, Wis. — For more than a week, Kyle Rittenhouse has sat at the defense table as his attorneys told jurors he was a well-meaning, if naive, teenager who killed two people and injured a third out of fear for his own life.
Rittenhouse, 18, now has the opportunity to tell them himself.
After nearly two dozen witnesses over five days of testimony, Kenosha prosecutors rested their case against the teenager Tuesday afternoon. Their attempts to portray Rittenhouse as a chaos tourist who came to town to impose his sense of justice occasionally fell flat, with some of the state’s own witnesses seemingly backing up the self-defense claims.
