(Reporting by Rich McKay in Brunswick, Ga.Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
She said McMichael's pointing a shotgun at Arbery amounted to aggravated assault, and someone cannot claim self defense if they are committing a felony, nor can anyone use excessive force in their own defense. Dunikoski told the jury that inconsistencies in his accounts and with video evidence showed he lied on the witness stand. Prosecutors noted that he told the police on the afternoon of the shooting he could not say for sure whether Arbery actually grabbed his gun.
McMichael said he was in fear of his life. Travis McMichael testified last week that Arbery tried to fight him by grabbing his pump-action shotgun. In closing arguments, Laura Hogue, the elder McMichael's lawyer, sought to paint Arbery as a frightening, disgusting criminal with "long dirty toenails." The comments upset Arbery's parents, who said they were gratuitously rude, and angered scores of Arbery supporters who have rallied beneath the grand oak trees outside the courthouse. In both trials, defendants claimed self-defense in fatal shootings. A jury's acquittal in an unrelated case last week of a teenager who fatally shot two men during 2020 racial-justice protests in Wisconsin threw these differences into stark relief.
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The trial has underscored divisions among Americans over guns. "God has brought us this far and he's not going to fail us now," his mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, told reporters. Outside the courthouse, Arbery's parents said they expected jurors to convict the defendants. "You can't hold somebody so the police can show up, and go, 'Well he must have done something,'" Dunikoski said.ĭunikoski read from Gregory McMichael's interviews with police in which he said he had no idea what Arbery had been doing before running past the McMichaels' driveway. Unlike many contemporary fonts, it is a true italic, containing such characters as the single-storeyed lowercase a and g. He was killed with nothing on him besides his jogging clothes and sneakers.ĭunikoski said the men simply did not have reasonable suspicion of a crime necessary to detain Arbery, and that Arbery had a constitutional right not to answer the questions the men shouted from their trucks. Georgia's accompanying italic is a graceful, flowing font, the design of which entirely masks the difficulty of creating an italic for the screen. No evidence emerged that Arbery ever stole anything on his frequent runs through Satilla Shores, a leafy cluster of homes outside Brunswick. The law was repealed after Bryan's cellphone video of the shooting caused outrage. The defense has argued that the defendants had a right and a neighborly obligation to jump in their pickup trucks and chase Arbery to detain him because they had reason to believe he may have been connected to previous property crimes that had left the neighborhood on edge. The judge said such a warrantless arrest must occur "immediately after the perpetration of the offense or, in the case of felonies, during escape." Outside that timeframe, the citizen's "power to do so is extinguished," Walmsley said. It's offensive."Įxplaining the citizen's-arrest law at the heart of the defense, Walmsley told jurors that someone can make a citizen's arrest of a person only if a crime has occurred "in his presence or within his immediate knowledge." "I know you're not going to buy into that. It's the victim's fault," Dunikoski told the jury. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley instructed the jury of 11 white men and women and one Black man in the law governing the case after lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski delivered a final two-hour rebuttal to defense lawyers' closing arguments.īefore deliberations began, Dunikoski asked jurors to find the defendants guilty of all charges and argued that the defense was seeking to blame the 25-year-old Arbery for his own death. The judge said they would resume on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. The jurors worked through lunch as they deliberated then asked to break for the night soon after 6 p.m. McMichael, 35, his father Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, have pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment for the killing in the coastal suburb of Satilla Shores on Feb. Georgia was designed by Matthew Carter and published by Microsoft. These included Travis McMichael, the only defendant to take the witness stand, who said he fired his shotgun at Arbery in self defense. Jurors are weighing evidence from the more than two dozen witnesses called since the panel was sworn in two weeks ago. (Reuters) -A Georgia jury deliberated for more than six hours on Tuesday without reaching a verdict on murder and other charges against three white men who chased and shot Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who ran through their mostly white neighborhood.
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