You will find this interesting.
Travis's lawyer is not appealing on those grounds... That Arbery was targeted
due to him being a criminal, rather than because of his race.... Even Travis's own attorney apparently believes Travis targeted Arbery due to his race, or that it is so obvious that it can't be used for appeals.
In Travis McMichael's appeal, attorney Amy Lee Copeland didn't dispute the jury's finding that he was motivated by racism. The social media evidence included a 2018 Facebook comment Travis McMichael made on a video of Black man playing a prank on a white person. He used an expletive and a racial slur after he wrote wrote: “I’d kill that .... .”
Instead, Copeland based her appeal on legal technicalities.
Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions
In his state trial for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Travis McMichael testified he is not a racist. But federal prosecutors are presenting evidence that shows otherwise.
abcnews.go.com
FBI analyst Amy Vaughn testified on Wednesday that she found a digital onslaught of messages,
mostly from Travis McMichael, in which he allegedly routinely used racial slurs to describe Black people and advocated violence against them.