Aug 25, 2021 · FILE - In this May 21, 2021 file photo, Kyle Rittenhouse, right, listens to his attorney, Mark Richards, during Rittenhouse's pretrial hearing at the Kenosha County Courthouse in …
May 21, 2021 · Also on Friday, Rittenhouse retained Corey Chirafisi, a defense attorney based in Madison, to serve as co-counsel, according to attorney Mark Richards, who was already representing Rittenhouse....
Nov 22, 2021 · Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense lawyer ripped CNN and MSNBC for allegedly false reports and bungling “basic facts” amid his client’s high-profile trial. Mark Richards told Fox News on Sunday that much...
Nov 23, 2021 · Who are Kyle Rittenhouse’s former lawyers Lin Wood and John Pierce? When the jury delivered their not guilty verdict, Rittenhouse, 18, was standing beside Mark Richards, who helped the teen win the case. However, before Rittenhouse hired Richards, he had two former lawyers including Lin Wood, 69, and John Pierce.
attorney Mark RichardsSoon after a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges, defense attorney Mark Richards took a swipe at his predecessors, telling reporters that their tactics -- leaning into Rittenhouse's portrayal as a rallying point for the right to carry weapons and defend oneself -- were not his.Nov 21, 2021
Mark RichardsKyle Rittenhouse's Kenosha shooting trial defense lawyer Mark Richards said putting the Antioch teen on the stand was crucial for the acuittal. KENOSHA, Wis. (WLS) -- The lawyer who defended Kyle Rittenhouse in his Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting case said putting the Antioch teenager on the stand was vital this outcome.Nov 20, 2021
The lead lawyer representing Kyle Rittenhouse is Mark Richards, 59, a veteran defense lawyer and former prosecutor who has spent his career in Kenosha and Racine, Wis., primarily representing people accused of drug crimes and murder.Nov 2, 2021
Richards is a courtroom veteran and was a prosecutor in Racine and Kenosha counties in the late 1980s before he opened his own firm in 1990 that specializes in criminal defense. Chirafisi is also a former prosecutor and has been practicing law for more than 20 years.Nov 20, 2021
A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts in his murder trial connected to the shootings of three people during unrest in Kenosha during the summer of 2020.Nov 19, 2021
the University of Wisconsin Law SchoolRichards earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison in 1987. Rittenhouse's other defense attorney, Corey Chirafisi, has been practicing law in Wisconsin for over 20 years, according to his biography with Chirafisi & Verhoff Law Office. His law practice is based in Madison.
Harvard Law SchoolA graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Pierce is often retained by major corporations and financial institutions in the most difficult, high-profile business disputes.
Brigham Young UniversityHe received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and followed that with an MBA/MPA from Seattle University's Albers School of Business.
Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's main defense attorney, joined “Banfield” after his client was was found not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and four other charges.Nov 20, 2021
Mark studied at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He was a sole practitioner from 1990 to 1994. He's currently associated with Richards & Dimmer, S.C as a partner.Nov 16, 2021
Rittenhouse, who is white, is accused of traveling to Kenosha from his home in Antioch, Illinois, on Aug. 25 after a local militia posted an online message seeking help protecting businesses from protesters.
Richards has said in court documents that Rittenhouse and his family have moved into an undisclosed safe house because they’ve received multiple threats. Elisha Fieldstadt is a breaking news reporter for NBC News. The Associated Press contributed.
Sean Krajacic / The Kenosha News via AP. Rittenhouse is due back in court Sept. 17. A trial date is still set for Nov. 1, and it is expected to last about two weeks.
Nam Y. Huh/Pool via Reuters, FILE. John M. Pierce, a California lawyer who has employed war-like rhetoric in his advocacy and fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse -- the 17-year-old accused of killing two men and wounding another during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin -- filed a motion to withdraw from Rittenhouse's criminal case, ...
Accompanied by his client's mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, Pierce used the segment to announce a new fundraising site and vowed to pursue "a lot" of civil cases against media organizations and politicians he claims have defamed Rittenhouse. At the time the segment aired, the new fundraising site was still under construction.
Though Pierce stepped down from the foundation board in September, Binger noted in his court filing that Pierce continued to urge his 32,500 Twitter followers to send donations for Rittenhouse. "This creates a potential conflict of interest for Attorney Pierce.