Could Kyle Rittenhouse face civil penalties despite acquittals in Kenosha deaths?

[Poiuyt]

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In a civil case you just have to prove negligence," said Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law. "Did his conduct fall below the standard of care that the average person would have?"

Rittenhouse "could say, 'I didn't have the intent to kill anyone — I just panicked,'" Little added. "The jury could still say, 'We didn't think the average person would do what you did.' If your conduct is judged to be less than that, you lose."

A civil action would also allow a jury to examine a broader range of evidence.

In the criminal case against Rittenhouse, Judge Bruce Schroeder barred jurors from considering Rittenhouse's links to the sometimes-violent, far-right Proud Boys and from seeing a video that prosecutors said showed him injuring a teenage girl.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kyle-rittenhouse-face-civil-penalties-acquittals-kenosha-deaths-rcna6207

[Colgate 64]

1. Yep. The real problem is whether it's worth

it, Little Red Ryder probably doesn't have any assets (except for his A-15) and doubt that Mom does, either. You don't mount a civil suit like that unless there's someone collectible.

[Poiuyt]

2. From the same article:

As an 18-year-old online college student, Kyle Rittenhouse wouldn't appear to have deep pockets to pay for any award should he face —and lose — a civil trial in the shooting deaths of the two men he was acquitted of killing on Friday.

But Rittenhouse has proven to be a prodigious fundraiser when it comes to gathering resources to pay for his bail and defense in the wake of the deadly violence last year in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc.

"He's a public figure now, and money might come in," said Ion Meyn, who teaches law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "I'm not convinced there's nothing there."

[Initech]

3. He's definitely getting some money from some dark sources.

Time to find out who. That seems like a fact worth knowing!

[Colgate 64]

7. Our Junior Vigilante is being funded by any number

of shadow groups. His defense didn't come cheap and they splurged on very pricey items like professional jury consultants. The problem is reaching those funds in a civil suit. I'm somewhat skeptical that the people behind our AR-15 "medic" would not anticipate the invariable suit by the familites of the 2 men he killed and the 3rd that he maimed and make sure that there was no easy way to attach those funds but we'll see.

[UTUSN]

4. K& big R#5 for, my non-legal impulse says yes, and the lack of assets is immaterial,

worth it to have the settlement hanging over him.

[WarGamer]

5. no.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I read somewhere on this website

that he can't be sued because he was a minor, so his parents would be the ones sued. It also said in Wisconsin, damages to the parents for things caused by a minor are limited to $5,000. I don't know if this is true or not.