Jury deliberations in Rittenhouse trial enter second day

Jurors deliberating the execution charges against Kyle Rittenhouse successful Kenosha, Wisconsin, volition instrumentality connected Wednesday astatine 9 a.m. section clip for a 2nd time of debate.

After Judge Bruce Schroeder sent the proceedings to the assemblage connected Tuesday morning, jurors worked for 9 hours but did not present a verdict.

While 18 jurors had been selected to presumption the full trial, conscionable 12 are required to find Rittenhouse's fate. Schroeder dismissed six "alternate" jurors astatine random earlier deliberations Tuesday by having Rittenhouse gully slips of insubstantial with jurors' names from a raffle drum.

During the jury's enactment connected the archetypal time of deliberations, Schroeder noted that jurors requested 11 copies of the 36-page assemblage instructions.

Rittenhouse was 17 erstwhile helium traveled from his location successful adjacent Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha arsenic protests gripped the metropolis pursuing the constabulary shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse and others equipped themselves to support section businesses from looters and vandals.

Amid demonstrations connected Aug. 25, Rittenhouse changeable 3 protesters, sidesplitting two. Police allowed him to permission the scene, but helium aboriginal turned himself successful to authorities.

Throughout the trial, the prosecution has tried to overgarment Rittenhouse arsenic the aggressor successful an effort to nullify his claims of self-defense.

The defence argued the opposite, saying Rittenhouse felt his beingness was successful jeopardy.

Rittenhouse faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, 2 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering information and nonaccomplishment to comply with an exigency order. He faces beingness successful situation if convicted of the intentional homicide count.

Schroeder has already dismissed 1 of the charges levied against Rittenhouse — a complaint of possession of a unsafe limb by a idiosyncratic nether the property of 18.

While Rittenhouse was 17 astatine the clip of the shooting, Schroeder dismissed the complaint aft prosecutors pointed retired that Wisconsin law lone prevents minors from carrying rifles oregon shotguns that are short-barreled. Rittenhouse was carrying an AR-15-style rifle, which is not short-barreled, the nighttime of the shooting.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has already called connected the Wisconsin National Guard to assistance section instrumentality enforcement successful anticipation of imaginable unrest successful the metropolis pursuing the jury's decision. However, Kenosha County Sheriff's Department and Kenosha Police Department said successful a associated connection Tuesday that determination was no request to enact a curfew oregon adjacent roads successful the metropolis up of a verdict.