Motion Filed By Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Attorney to Dismiss Two Charges

Kyle Rittenhouse’s Wisconsin based lawyer, Mark Richards, filed a motion on Monday to dismiss two of the six charges Rittenhouse is facing.

Richards is trying to get a felony charge of “recklessly endangering safety” dismissed, as well as a misdemeanor charge of “possession of a deadly weapon by a minor.”

Rittenhouse would still face four felonies if successful including first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree attempted intentional homicide, and one count of first-degree reckless endangerment.

A pre-trial hearing for Rittenhouse is set to take place today at 10:30 a.m. and he is expected to appear before a Kenosha county judge virtually.

In the court file, Richard claims that count two, which is one of multiple reckless endangerment of safety charges in the first degree, that “no reasonable person could find that this crime was ever committed. Thus, the criminal complaint is defective and Count 2 should be dismissed.”

Richards is a defense attorney based in Racine, Wisconsin who was added to the defense team in September as “neither L. Lin Wood, a libel and defamation lawyer from Atlanta, nor John Pierce, a Los Angeles-based civil litigator, are licensed to practice in Wisconsin.”