Who Are the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Jurors?

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U.S.|Who are the jurors successful the Kyle Rittenhouse trial?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/us/rittenhouse-verdict-jury.html

Julie Bosman

Nov. 17, 2021, 7:58 a.m. ET

Nov. 17, 2021, 7:58 a.m. ET

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Final 12 Jurors Selected successful Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

The 18-person assemblage was winnowed to 12 done an old-fashioned process: slips of insubstantial with the jurors’ numbers were placed successful a tumbler, and Mr. Rittenhouse removed six numbers which corresponded to jurors that were to beryllium dismissed.

“All of the jurors’ numbers person been exhibited to the defendant, I believe, and —” “Yes, they are paper-clipped.” “They’re paper-clipped unneurotic now, and past delight enactment them successful the tumbler and the bailiff volition rotate it, and past the suspect volition gully retired six of the numbers.”

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The 18-person assemblage was winnowed to 12 done an old-fashioned process: slips of insubstantial with the jurors’ numbers were placed successful a tumbler, and Mr. Rittenhouse removed six numbers which corresponded to jurors that were to beryllium dismissed.CreditCredit...Pool photograph by Sean Krajacic

The destiny of Kyle Rittenhouse was enactment successful the hands of a assemblage that is made up of 7 women and 5 men. They began deliberating connected Tuesday morning, and were to proceed connected Wednesday.

The assemblage began with 20 radical — each residents of Kenosha County, wherever 170,000 radical unrecorded — that were chosen during a azygous time of assemblage enactment this month. Two jurors were excused earlier successful the trial: 1 for telling a gag astir Jacob Blake to a sheriff’s lawman — an speech that a authoritative said revealed a imaginable radical bias — and different for aesculapian reasons related to her pregnancy.

On Tuesday morning, the sheet was winnowed to 12 done an old-fashioned process: Scraps of insubstantial with the jurors’ numbers were placed successful a tumbler successful the courtroom, and Mr. Rittenhouse himself removed six numbers. Those jurors’ numbers were work aloud, and the jurors were removed from the jury, but were told to stay successful the courthouse during deliberations successful lawsuit they were needed arsenic alternates.

Most of the jurors carried clipboards, notebooks and pens passim the trial, studiously taking notes during testimony. Several grimaced successful tribunal erstwhile shown graphic videos of the archetypal antheral changeable by Mr. Rittenhouse, Joseph Rosenbaum, arsenic helium took his dying breaths, and an autopsy photograph of Anthony Huber with a azygous fatal gunshot coiled disposable connected his chest.

During assemblage selection, respective jurors expressed their ain anxieties and fears astir serving connected the Rittenhouse jury, saying that they had information concerns and were disquieted that their household members would not hold with the verdict.

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