Defence lawyers who did their job

Kyle Rittenhouse was lucky to have counsel more interested in defending him in court than becoming famous.

When Kyle Rittenhouse was originally charged with murder, he retained the services of John Pierce as his defence counsel.

It didn’t go well:

Though jurors acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges on Friday, the 18-year-old became a flashpoint in the U.S. culture war when his defense was associated with since-fired attorney John Pierce. In an interview with The Law&Crime Network’s Angenette Levy on the heels of Friday’s not guilty verdicts, Rittenhouse’s lead counsel Mark Richards slammed Pierce as the genesis of some of the tactics which increased — rather than mitigated — public scorn for the teen.

“His first lawyer was more interested in promoting himself than representing Kyle,” Richards said after being asked about Rittenhouse’s controversial photo with the Proud Boys. “And he did things with Kyle that never should have been done.”

While out on bond, Kyle went to a bar with his mother Wendy Rittenhouse and drank beers. (Though he was and remains under the legal drinking age, his acti…