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Illinois judge to rule on Rittenhouse extradition to Kenosha

(AP) — An Illinois judge Judge Paul Novak did not (16 kilometers) southwest of
said he will decide late comment on the arguments. Kenosha.
Friday afternoon whether He said he would issue a
a 17-year-old accused of written ruling by 5 p.m. Legal experts say that on the
killing two demonstra- rare occasions when state ex-
tors in Kenosha, Wiscon- The shootings happened tradition cases are contested,
sin, should be extradited Aug. 25, two days after a defense lawyers usually ar-
across the border to stand white police officer trying to gue that either no crime was
trial on homicide charges. arrest Jacob Blake shot the committed in the other state
29-year-old Black man seven or that the defendant was not
As the hearing began, Kyle times in the back, paralyzing the person who committed
Rittenhouse's lawyer said him from the waist down. whatever crime occurred.
he’d had a change of heart Video of the police shooting
since notifying the court he sparked outrage and helped The defense made none of
planned to call witnesses, in- spur on the protests. those arguments Friday.
cluding Rittenhouse’s moth- Rittenhouse's case has be- According to prosecutors
er. Instead, John Pierce said come a rallying point for and court documents, Rit-
he would focus on what he some conservatives who see prosecutor objected and the tradition are nearly always in tenhouse killed 36-year-old
called “fatal defects” in extra- him as a patriot who was ex- judge instructed Pierce to vain but can help attorneys Joseph Rosenbaum, of Keno-
dition papers. ercising his right to bear arms stick to issues of law. buy time to compile evidence sha, after Rosenbaum threw
during unrest. Others por- and prepare a defense. a plastic bag at Rittenhouse,
After 45 minutes of argu- tray him as a domestic terror- Without witnesses from ei- missing him, and tried to
ments delving into the mi- ist who incited protesters by ther side, the part of the hear- The most serious charge Rit- wrestle his rifle away.
nutia of extradition law and showing up wielding a rifle. ing meant for evidence and tenhouse faces in Wisconsin
how precedent should be in- testimony lasted less than is first-degree intentional While trying to get away in
terpreted, Pierce said his cli- Rittenhouse sat at a defense 30 seconds, when Scheller homicide, which carries a the immediate aftermath,
ent should remain in Illinois. table Friday wearing a dress handed the judge Illinois life prison sentence. He is Rittenhouse was captured
“This Illinois child must go shirt and tie — mask across Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signed also charged with attempted on cellphone video saying,
free,” he told the judge. his face. He appeared calm warrant calling for Ritten- intentional homicide in the “I just killed somebody.” Ac-
and at least once turned to house’s extradition. wounding of a third protest- cording to a complaint filed
A local prosecutor said the look at his mother, Wendy er, as well as a misdemeanor by prosecutors, someone in
law is unambiguous in re- Rittenhouse, on a spectactors' Pierce told Novak that Wis- charge of underage firearm the crowd said, “Beat him
quiring Rittenhouse’s extra- bench. Later, as officers led consin authorities were re- possession. His lawyers have up!” and another yelled, “Get
dition, saying that blocking him from the hearing room, quired by law to present argued he was acting in self- him! Get that dude!”
his transfer would under- she began to cry. charging documents to a defense. Video shows that Ritten-
mine the justice system. Near the courthouse steps, magistrate judge and that house tripped. As he was on
around 20 protesters, some their failure to do so ren- Rittenhouse and the man he the ground, 26-year-old An-
“You can imagine the chaos if wearing Black Lives Mat- dered their extradition re- allegedly injured are white, as thony Huber, of Silver Lake,
someone can commit a crime ter shirts, chanted, “Kyle is a quest invalid. were the two men who were hit him with a skateboard
and step over the (state bor- murderer!” State-to-state extraditions killed. and tried to take his rifle. Rit-
derline) and get sanctuary,” are typically formalities and A day after the shooting, Rit- tenhouse opened fire, killing
Lake County Assistant State’s During arguments, Pierce judges rarely refuse another tenhouse surrendered to po- Huber and wounding Gaige
Attorney Stephen Scheller at one point said, “This is a state’s request to transfer a lice in his Illinois hometown Grosskreutz, of West Allis,
said. political prosecution.” The suspect. Efforts to fight ex- of Antioch, some 10 miles who was holding a handgun.
Perdue declines to participate in final debate with Ossoff

director John Burke said in mered each other with at- after they received briefings
a statement shared on Twit- tacks that mirrored the ads on the virus. Perdue denied
ter that Perdue would instead from both sides that have any wrongdoing, saying the
join Trump at an expected blanketed television airwaves trades were handled by out-
rally. in recent months. Perdue re- side advisers and that he was
peatedly accused Ossoff of cleared by a Senate Ethics
“As lovely as another debate backing radical socialist poli- Committee investigation.
listening to Jon Ossoff lie to cies, while Ossoff slammed
the people of Georgia sounds, Perdue’s handling of the “This stock trade nonsense;
Senator Perdue will not be coronavirus pandemic and he keeps hammering that
participating in the WSB-TV Republican efforts to over- even though he knows — it's
debate but will instead join turn the Affordable Care Act. in the public record — that
the 45th president, Donald J. that's been totally refuted,”
Trump, for a huge Get-Out- “Well, perhaps Senator Per- Perdue said. He later added:
The-Vote rally in Northwest due would have been able “The thing I'm most upset
Georgia,” Burke said. to respond properly to the about, though, is that he'll
(AP) — A final debate be- met for a bitter second debate Ossoff fired back in a state- COVID-19 pandemic if you say and do anything to my
tween Republican Sen. in Savannah in which Ossoff ment, saying, “Senator Per- hadn't been fending off mul- friends in Georgia to mislead
David Perdue of Georgia slammed Perdue as a “crook” due’s cowardly withdrawal tiple federal investigations for them about how radical and
and Democratic chal- who downplayed the corona- from our final debate says it insider trading,” Ossoff said socialist (his) agenda really
lenger Jon Ossoff has been virus pandemic. Perdue, who all: David Perdue feels enti- in a clip from the debate that is."
canceled after Perdue is seeking a second term, de- tled to his office, and he’ll do has since been widely shared Another debate scheduled
dropped out, saying he nied the accusation. Polls anything to avoid account- on social media. “It's not just for Sunday — in Georgia's
would attend a campaign show a tight race between the ability for his blatant cor- that you're a crook, senator, other Senate race between
rally with President Don- two candidates heading into ruption and his total failure it's that you're attacking the Republican Sen. Kelly Loef-
ald Trump instead. the final days of the cam- during this unprecedented health of the people you rep- fler, GOP Rep. Doug Collins
paign. The final debate had health crisis.” resent." and Democrat Raphael War-
The cancellation was an- been scheduled for Sunday. Perdue was among a group nock — was also canceled
nounced Thursday night, a In a debate on Wednesday, of senators whose stock after Loeffler and Warnock
day after Perdue and Ossoff Perdue’s communications Perdue and Ossoff ham- trades came under scrutiny declined to participate.