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The jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse have concluded deliberating for the day.
The 12 juror panel is expected to resume deliberating at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday morning.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder said the jurors asked to break for the evening.
Jurors in the case will not be sequestered, Schroeder said.
Deliberations started at 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Schroeder dismissed the jurors for the evening at 6:50 p.m. ET.
The court did not specify how long the jurors took for their lunch break.
The prosecution and defense attorneys, along with Kyle Rittenhouse, have entered the courtroom.
The judge is talking to the jury about whether they want to keep deliberating.
The jury has now requested 11 copies of pages 7 to 36 of the jury instructions, which is the total number of pages in the instructions, according to a pool reporter in court.
Earlier today, jurors requested extra copies of the jury instructions, specifically pages 1 through 6. The jury was provided 11 additional copies of those pages, according to the courtroom pool reporter.
Jurors began deliberating at 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
The Rittenhouse jury is about to take a pizza lunch break, according to the judge’s clerk, who notified the pool at 1:20 p.m. ET. The court did not specify how long the break will last
Jurors have been deliberating since 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
The Kenosha Police Department said there is currently “no reason to facilitate road closures, enact curfews or ask our communities to modify their daily routines” ahead of a verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial.
Police said in a statement they have worked with the sheriff’s department to improve their response to large-scale events over the past year and have strengthened their relationships with state and federal resources.
“The Kenosha Police and Kenosha County Sheriff’s Departments understand and recognize the anxiety surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse trial,” police said in the statement.
Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in Rittenhouse’s trial, a day after the prosecution and defense offered dueling assessments of his actions last year during unrest in Kenosha.
Wendy Rittenhouse issued a message on behalf of the Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund Tuesday as the jury in her son’s case continued deliberations.
In the email, she asked for donations to pay for legal costs. Legal costs for the month of November are expected to be $110,000, Wendy Rittenhouse wrote.
“We have been fighting an extremely uphill battle from the beginning, but with the support of thousands of our fellow Americans we have put up a big fight,” she said.
Jurors began deliberations earlier today in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial, a day after the prosecution and defense offered dueling assessments of his actions last year during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The final 12-person jury panel is made up of five men and seven women, according to a pool reporter in court.
Jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse have asked the judge for extra copies of the jury instructions, specifically pages 1 through 6.
In this case, attorneys from both sides did arrive, until the clerk learned the simplicity of the question, according to the courtroom pool reporter. The matter was not seen on courtroom pool cameras.
The jury was provided 11 additional copies, according to the courtroom pool reporter.
Pages 2 through 3 of the jury instructions focus on the self-defense and provocation instructions. Page 4 of the jury instructions focuses on crimes requiring intent to kill. Pages 5 and 6 focus on the first count of first-degree reckless homicide for the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum.
Jurors began deliberating at 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
The 12 jurors selected to deliberate the case and reach a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial have been instructed on the law, but no one tells them what to do once they get in the room.
“This is one of the great mysteries of our legal system,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said of what happens next in the process.
He said the group typically will first elect a foreperson, but after that, different juries approach the task at hand in different ways.
“All we are going to know is we’ll get little hints periodically over the next several days,” Honig said, adding that those hints will come in the form of notes. The jury can ask to see certain evidence or have testimony read back them.
At the end, they will vote on each of the counts individually, Honig explained.
A group of 18 jurors was in court for the entirety of the trial but six were dismissed by a random drawing on Tuesday morning. The final 12-person jury panel is made up of five men and seven women, according to a pool reporter in court.
More on the case: Rittenhouse faces five felony charges and, if convicted on the most serious charge, he could face a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
The trial featured more than a dozen videos from the night that showed what happened before, during and after the shootings.
Most of the facts of what happened that night were not up for debate — rather, the heart of the trial was the analysis of Rittenhouse’s actions and whether they can be considered “reasonable.”
CNN’s Eric Levenson, Carma Hassan and Brad Parks contributed reporting to this post.
The original panel of 20 jurors, 11 women and nine men, was selected in just one day of voir dire from a pool of 179 prospective jurors present at court, without the use of background questionnaires.
Two jurors were dismissed during the eight days of testimony. One juror was dismissed after it was reported he attempted to tell a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake to a deputy after court. A female juror who is pregnant was also excused by the judge after she reported experiencing “mild discomfort” and asked to be dismissed from the panel.
Judge Bruce Schroeder told prospective jurors in the case during voir dire that he can’t rule out ordering them to be sequestered, but said there is “less than 1% chance” that will occur. “I will resist it any way I can, but I can’t rule it out.”
Earlier today, six of the 18 jurors who heard the case were selected during a lottery to become alternates. The 12 numbers that were not called are now the jury that will deliberate the case.
Schroeder has not indicated if he will sequester the jury if they are unable to reach a verdict on Tuesday.
The 12 jurors who will deliberate the case and reach a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial have been selected.
This morning, before deliberations begin, six of the 18 jurors who heard the case were selected during a lottery held in the courtroom. The 18 potential jurors heard the evidence and testimony in the case so that alternates were available if jurors needed to be dismissed.
All the jurors’ numbers were loaded into a tumbler and mixed around. Defendant Kyle Rittenhouse selected six numbers from the batch.
The jurors whose numbers he selected were sent out of the courtroom. They will continue to serve as alternates. The clerk read off their numbers after Rittenhouse made his selections.
“As I call your number, please stand up. Number 11. Number 58. Number 14. Number 45. Number 9. Number 52. Then if you’ll follow the bailiff into the back room,” the clerk said.
The 12 jurors are now beginning deliberations in the case. The alternates will remain at the courthouse during deliberations.
The jury in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse will begin deliberations today.
The panel of 18 jurors, eight men and 10 women, will be narrowed down to the 12 by a random drawing using a raffle tumbler this morning. The 12 jurors selected randomly will then deliberate the case.
On Monday, jurors were asked to report back to court at 10 a.m. ET today.
Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the fatal shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year by pointing his AR-15-style weapon at Joseph Rosenbaum, prosecutors said Monday in closing arguments of his homicide trial.
In response, defense attorney Mark Richards said Rittenhouse did not act recklessly when he fatally shot Rosenbaum, who Richards argued had threatened him, chased him, thrown a plastic bag at him and lunged for his gun.
The dueling closing arguments, which took up most of Monday, came at the end of a two-week trial highlighted by emotional and illuminating testimony from Rittenhouse himself, who said he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Rosenbaum.
A crowd of people then pursued the teenager, and Rittenhouse testified he shot in self-defense at a man who tried to kick him; fatally shot Anthony Huber, who had hit him with a skateboard; and shot Gaige Grosskreutz, who was armed with a pistol. Rosenbaum and Huber were killed, and Grosskreutz was wounded.
The group of 18 jurors will be narrowed to 12 this morning and will then begin deliberating in the case.
Earlier Monday, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a misdemeanor weapons charge against Rittenhouse, now 18. He still faces five felony charges and, if convicted on the most serious charge, could face a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
Schroeder also read a set of legal instructions to the jury members and informed them they will be allowed to consider lesser included offenses for two of the five counts.
The trial featured more than a dozen videos from the night of August 25, 2020, showing what happened before, during and after the shootings. Most of the facts of what happened that night were not up for debate — rather, the heart of the trial was the analysis of Rittenhouse’s actions and whether they can be considered “reasonable.”
The prosecution rested its case last Tuesday and the defense rested Friday.
