Tag: Kyle Rittenhouse
Posted on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 09:59:25 PM EST
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Kyle Rittenhouse's chief counsel, Mark Richards, hasn't been known to give interviews about the case. Now that it's over, he has spoken.
It's an enlightening interview about the role of criminal defense attorneys. We don't represent causes, we represent individuals.
I was hired by the two first lawyers. I’m not going to use their names,” Richards said Friday. “They wanted to use Kyle for a cause and something that I think was inappropriate – and I don’t represent causes. I represent clients"
.....Richards...said that to him, the only thing that mattered was “whether he was found not guilty or not.'"
As for the choice of a defense strategy:
Regardless of what was happening behind the scenes, the strategy from Richards and [co-counsel] Chirafisi in court was clear: get the jury to regard Rittenhouse as a scared teenager who shot to save his life.
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