Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Hires New Lawyer in Murder Case

• Kyle Rittenhouse retained lawyer Corey Chirafisi in his murder case on Friday. 
• He retained the new illustration just before a pre-demo listening to. 
• Rittenhouse is accused of fatally shooting two guys at a Black Life Issue protest past calendar year.
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Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has retained a new attorney in his double murder scenario, in accordance to Kenosha County Circuit Courtroom documents witnessed by Insider.

Rittenhouse, 18, retained lawyer Corey Chirafisi, of the Madison, Wisconsin-based organization Chirafisi & Verhoff, S.C., on Friday, just right before a pre-demo listening to.

Chirafisi is shown along with Rittenhouse’s other attorney, Mark Richards, in court docket records. He was employed two months after Rittenhouse fired his former law firm, John Pierce.

Rittenhouse has been charged in the lethal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz all through a Black Life Subject protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, past 12 months.

The now-18-calendar year-previous faces numerous felony fees, such as homicide and reckless endangerment. Rittenhouse has also been charged with currently being a slight in possession of a firearm, a misdemeanor.

Rittenhouse was arrested shortly after the killing and has pleaded not guilty, with his legal professionals boasting he acted in self-defense.

Rittenhouse, who crossed state lights into Wisconsin from his Illinois household on the day of capturing, turned a hero to the correct. Rittenhouse claimed he attended the protest to safeguard enterprises from rioters. 

He has pleaded not responsible and claimed self-defense in the capturing.

Given that his pretrial launch, Rittenhouse was spotted consuming at a Wisconsin pub with associates of the loathe team Very pleased Boys. 

He was also observed sporting a “No cost AS F***” t-shirt following he was released on a $2 million bail in November. 

Rittenhouse’s up coming court docket hearing is scheduled for September 17, and jury variety for his demo is set to start on November 1.

The trial is envisioned to previous about two months.