Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate soon to be in jurors’ hands
KENOSHA, Wis. — Inside the 100-year-old Kenosha County Courthouse Monday, jurors are expected to begin deliberations on whether Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he killed two men and wounded a third during a violent, chaotic night in August 2020.
It’s a legally nuanced question that has often been drowned out by the virulent political debate surrounding the trial. Since its inception, the case has served as a sort of national Rorschach test, with some seeing in the teenager a patriot who used his Second Amendment right to defend himself and others viewing him as a gun-wielding white boy who believed he could act with impunity.
At the intersection of gun rights and racial inequities, however, comes a straightforward self-defense case in which jurors must decide whether Rittenhouse believed his life to be in danger when he fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz. If the answer is “yes,” then they must decide whether the belief was reasonable.
“Self-defense cases have always been my favorite cases because they’re subjective in nature,” said Chicago attorney Sam Adam Jr., who is also licensed to practice in Wisconsin. “It’s
