In the days following the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, clerks filed more than 100 pages of letters to the court expressing praise and anger.Copies of the letters, obtained by sister station WISN, show some of them were written as the jury deliberated Rittenhouse's fate and after the jurors acquitted the now 18-year-old from Illinois. The letters were from at least 22 states outside Wisconsin and mainly focused on the polarizing circuit judge, Bruce Schroeder."If it had not been for you, that precious, intelligent, wholesome, motivated & alltogether adorable young man would have been a life wasted," a woman from Ohio wrote.One of the most high-profile letters of support came from a special prosecutor in Louisiana, Hugo Holland, who also had previously been forced to resign in a firearms acquisition scandal. "I would not have even bothered to take the Rittenhouse case to a grand jury. I would have pronounced it a good shoot and been done with it," Holland wrote to Schroeder.The judge did receive several letters from critics as well.A person from Ohio voiced their "displeasure towards Bruce E. Schroeder because of his obvious and blatant ways of favoritism that he has shown towards the defense." The person added, "I hope this old and senile person who claims to be a man of the law can rest his head at night..."A man watching the trial from New Mexico took his criticism further, writing, "It is disgraceful to interrupt justice as it appears you are trying to do."He added, "I am going to write to the board of judicial review and ask that you be seriously reviewed by them."Among the 115 pages filed Nov. 22 and 23 were two letters addressed to Rittenhouse directly."If I had been your father, I never would have let you go downtown," a man from New York wrote to Rittenhouse. He added in the next sentence he thought Rittenhouse's intentions were "laudable and well meaning."Investigative producer Jennie Fritz contributed to this report.
In the days following the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, clerks filed more than 100 pages of letters to the court expressing praise and anger.
Copies of the letters, obtained by sister station WISN, show some of them were written as the jury deliberated Rittenhouse's fate and after the jurors acquitted the now 18-year-old from Illinois.
The letters were from at least 22 states outside Wisconsin and mainly focused on the polarizing circuit judge, Bruce Schroeder.
"If it had not been for you, that precious, intelligent, wholesome, motivated & alltogether [sic] adorable young man would have been a life wasted," a woman from Ohio wrote.
One of the most high-profile letters of support came from a special prosecutor in Louisiana, Hugo Holland, who also had previously been forced to resign in a firearms acquisition scandal.
"I would not have even bothered to take the Rittenhouse case to a grand jury. I would have pronounced it a good shoot and been done with it," Holland wrote to Schroeder.
The judge did receive several letters from critics as well.
A person from Ohio voiced their "displeasure towards Bruce E. Schroeder because of his obvious and blatant ways of favoritism that he has shown towards the defense."
The person added, "I hope this old and senile person who claims to be a man of the law can rest his head at night..."
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A man watching the trial from New Mexico took his criticism further, writing, "It is disgraceful to interrupt justice as it appears you are trying to do."
He added, "I am going to write to the board of judicial review and ask that you be seriously reviewed by them."
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Among the 115 pages filed Nov. 22 and 23 were two letters addressed to Rittenhouse directly.
"If I had been your father, I never would have let you go downtown," a man from New York wrote to Rittenhouse.
He added in the next sentence he thought Rittenhouse's intentions were "laudable and well meaning."
Investigative producer Jennie Fritz contributed to this report.
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