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Lawyer Who Represented Nick Sandmann Joins Rittenhouse Team

by Savannah Rychcik
June 2, 2022 at 4:10 pm
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Lawyer Who Represented Nick Sandmann Joins Rittenhouse Team

KENOSHA, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 16: Kyle Rittenhouse (L) stands with his attorneys, Corey Chirafisi (C) and Natalie Wisco, as the jury leaves to deliberate during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 16, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shooting and armed with an assault rifle. He faces counts of felony homicide and felony attempted homicide. (Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Images)

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The lawyer who represented Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann is now representing Kyle Rittenhouse.

Todd McMurtry told Fox News during an interview Thursday, “I’ve been hired to head the effort to determine whom to sue, when to sue, where to sue.”

He added, “We’re going to look at everything that’s been said, determine which of those comments are legally actionable and proceed from there.”

McMurtry claimed it’s “​​pretty much assured that there’s probably 10 to 15 solid” cases against “large defendants,” as Fox News reported.

He called out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the social media platform for a “factually false” designation labeling the Kenosha shootings as a “mass murder” incident.

As a result, Rittenhouse’s social media accounts were brought down positive comments about him were restricted.

“Let’s just use for an example what Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg said about [Rittenhouse]. They said that he was involved in a mass murder incident,” McMurtry said.

He continued, “This was not a mass murder incident. It was clearly factually false.”

McMurtry explained, “To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically … censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character. And it was seriously mistaken and seriously defamatory.”

Later in the interview, McMurtry argued Facebook “has an outsized voice, they can do a lot of damage, as compared to somebody maybe who has a small blog with 100 subscribers. But we’re going to look at everything that we have access to and that’s been published, and decide which ones are actionable.”

According to McMurtry, he does not want to “necessarily tie the cases together,” but acknowledged similarities between Sandmann and Rittenhouse.

In November 2021, Sandmann offered Rittenhouse advice suggesting he should hold the media accountable.

“If Kyle is prepared to take on another burden in his early life, with the acceptance that it might result in nothing, I answer, give it a shot and hold the media accountable,” Sandmann said.

(Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images)

Sandmann made headlines after a viral confrontation between himself and a Native American elder.

Rittenhouse was acquitted in November 2021 after fatally shooting two men and wounding another amid protests and rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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