Judge Bruce Schroeder granted Pierce's request Monday, Pierce said. Online court records do not indicate that a hearing ever took place.

Rittenhouse, 17, who faces multiple charges for allegedly shooting two protesters dead, is due back in court on Dec. 3 for a preliminary hearing.

Kenosha County prosecutors have also charged Rittenhouse with wounding a third man, Gaige Grosskreutz.

Sheriff's deputies in Illinois handed Rittenhouse, who's accused of killing two protesters, over to their counterparts in Wisconsin shortly after a judge on Friday approved the contested extradition.

Rittenhouse of Antioch, remains held in a juvenile detention centre in Lake County without bond due to pending criminal charges in Kenosha.

In court records filed late Thursday, Rittenhouse's attorneys argued that he was acting in self-defence and extraditing him to Wisconsin authorities would violate his constitutional rights.

Rittenhouse surrendered to police in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, a day after prosecutors say he shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third on the streets of Kenosha on Aug. 25.

The accused Kenosha gunman faces two first-degree murder charges.

Kenosha police updated arrest figures Thursday, saying of the 252 people arrested, 132 did not live in Kenosha County.

Trump supporters and conservative pundits have embraced Rittenhouse as a 'patriot' while he faces murder charges in Kenosha, Wisc.