GUILTY GA - Ahmaud Arbery, 25, jogger, fatally shot by former LEO and son, Brunswick, Feb 2020 *Arrests* #6

[CrimeAway]

Ex-district attorney charged in Ahmaud Arbery case booked at Georgia jail | Daily Mail Online

 

[branmuffin]

Here's the Federal court hearing schedule:

Motions hearing 12/20/21 @ 11am

Pretrial hearing on 1/21/22 @ 10am

Trial begins on 2/7/22 with jury selection @ 9am

just an FYI!

I wonder who their lawyers will be?

 

[Niner]

I wonder who their lawyers will be?

Since you asked - I do have that in my notes:

Attorney Amy Lee Copeland for Travis; Attorney Attilio J. Balbo for Gregory; Attorney James Pete Theodocion for Bryan.

 

[sds71]

From Roddie’s attorney before he was appointed to defend him


“If a group of Black men in a pickup truck chased down a 16-year-old white kid in West Lake, there would be riots,” said Pete Theodocion, a veteran criminal defense attorney in the Augusta area.

The citizen’s arrest law was passed in 1863 to give white men in Georgia the ability to arrest runaway slaves, and “there really is no place for it now,” Theodocion said.
Georgia citizen's arrest law on chopping block

 

[Lilibet]

From Roddie’s attorney before he was appointed to defend him


“If a group of Black men in a pickup truck chased down a 16-year-old white kid in West Lake, there would be riots,” said Pete Theodocion, a veteran criminal defense attorney in the Augusta area.

The citizen’s arrest law was passed in 1863 to give white men in Georgia the ability to arrest runaway slaves, and “there really is no place for it now,” Theodocion said.
Georgia citizen's arrest law on chopping block

Well, this trial ought to be interesting to watch! Roddie must be thrilled.

 

[ilovewings]

‘Not in vain’: How Arbery’s murder sparked changes in Georgia’s law

 

[Lilibet]

Meet the prosecutors:

This case was investigated by both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Tara Lyons of the Southern District of Georgia, and Deputy Chief Bobbi Bernstein and Special Litigation Counsel Christopher J. Perras of the Civil Rights Division.

Tara Lyons – Good Black News

 

[sds71]

Well, this trial ought to be interesting to watch! Roddie must be thrilled.

Another interesting one to watch

Black Driver’s Stand Your Ground Case Highlights Racial Disparities In Georgia’s Criminal Justice System

 

[Lilibet]

Another interesting one to watch

Black Driver’s Stand Your Ground Case Highlights Racial Disparities In Georgia’s Criminal Justice System

Shameful!

 

[ilovewings]

How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case

This is behind a paywall- it is a really good article about how the prosecutor won the case -with some background information about "Miss Linda".

 

[BUF]

How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case

This is behind a paywall- it is a really good article about how the prosecutor won the case -with some background information about "Miss Linda".

Wish this wasn’t behind a paywall, but was so glad we were able to watch LD at trial. I was so impressed with her…her dedication to this case, her knowledge of the law, and her impressive ability to deliver the facts of this case in a way that jurors would understand. When she gave her closings she never even referred down to notes, but gave a fluid overview with her well organized power point.

 

[ilovewings]

Program Note: Tonight on 20/20 on ABC from 9-11 pm there will be a sit down with Ahmaud Arbery's mom as she will reflect on the life of her son.

 

[ilovewings]

Wish this wasn’t behind a paywall, but was so glad we were able to watch LD at trial. I was so impressed with her…her dedication to this case, her knowledge of the law, and her impressive ability to deliver the facts of this case in a way that jurors would understand. When she gave her closings she never even referred down to notes, but gave a fluid overview with her well organized power point.

She put forth an amazing presentation of this case- I believe if the prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case had been half way decent, Zimmerman would not have been acquitted. LD shows what a great prosecutor can do with a case- and this was no slam dunk, not in the deep south. I had this thought that some day they will make a movie of this case and who would they choose to play LD? just an idle thought!

 

[wasnt_me]

"Today is Thanksgiving and I'm really, really thankful. My family and I are really, really thankful for the verdict we got yesterday," Wanda Cooper-Jones told ABC News' Whit Johnson in an interview Thursday on "Good Morning America."

When asked whether she had a message for the three defendants, Cooper-Jones replied: "I would simply tell them that their bad decisions have impacted two families -- my family and again their family."

"Not only did the McMichaels lose a son, they lost a grandfather and they will be impacted by his grandchild," she said. "I lost a son, but they lost three generations there."

Ahmaud Arbery's mother speaks out after murder trial verdict: 'I'm really, really thankful' - ABC News (go.com)

Don't forget Roddie. That's three families.

 

[kaen]

Another interesting one to watch

Black Driver’s Stand Your Ground Case Highlights Racial Disparities In Georgia’s Criminal Justice System

Well, just a great illustration of the amount of work that needs to be done. I haven't heard about this case. If things went down as the article states, I don't understand why this man is being held in jail.......

 

[Niner]

Looks like they will have a hearing before the sentencing one.

A judge will decide if the men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery ever get a chance at parole.

Nov. 24, 2021
The three men who were convicted on Wednesday of murdering Ahmaud Arbery must be sentenced to life in prison, according to Georgia law, and a judge will decide whether they can be considered for parole beginning in 30 years or if they instead must die in prison.
[.....]
Judge Timothy R. Walmsley, who oversaw the trial, will decide the men’s sentences after a hearing, which has not been scheduled. At the hearing, prosecutors and lawyers for the men will be able to argue for their preferred sentence, and relatives of Mr. Arbery may also deliver a victim impact statement to the court.
[.....]
In sentencing the men, the judge will consider a range of aggravating and mitigating factors. Experts said it was unlikely that the jury’s decision to acquit Gregory McMichael and Mr. Bryan on malice murder would have a serious effect, though the judge might take into account that it was Travis McMichael, and not the other two men, who pulled the trigger.
[.....]
Even if the judge allows any of the men to seek parole after 30 years, Ms. Redmon said, it is rare for people serving life sentences to be granted parole as soon as they become eligible. At that point, people serving those sentences are considered for parole at least every eight years.

 

[ilovewings]

I don't know how many of you watched the special on ABC about this case, but it was magnificently done. It is because of Mr. Arbery's mother that justice was served in this case. She is a lovely woman: she persevered against all odds. Learned lots of things about her son--- her pain is never-ending.

 

[skyedaze]

so glad this worked out the way it should have..IMHO.
You just can't treat people like that..it's wrong. That's a hard NO from humanity.
One additional thing I think is really sad though...I think these three men still think what they did was ok and justified. I just don't think the dots connect in their heads on how their actions were WAY out of bounds from the beginning. Even with the citizens arrest statute, it was wrong and what they were doing did not even qualify under that former law.

And btw...did anyone else pick up on the fact the TM's gun was supposedly stolen out of his UNLOCKED truck...the same truck that had a car seat in it...a car seat in the FRONT seat.
wth...just dumb all over.

 

[sds71]

CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca and "48 Hours" go inside the trial against the three White men accused of killing a Black jogger and the final guilty verdicts in "A Promise to Ahmaud,"
Saturday, November 27 at 10:01/9:01c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

 

[JayWill]

so glad this worked out the way it should have..IMHO.
You just can't treat people like that..it's wrong. That's a hard NO from humanity.
One additional thing I think is really sad though...I think these three men still think what they did was ok and justified. I just don't think the dots connect in their heads on how their actions were WAY out of bounds from the beginning. Even with the citizens arrest statute, it was wrong and what they were doing did not even qualify under that former law.

And btw...did anyone else pick up on the fact the TM's gun was supposedly stolen out of his UNLOCKED truck...the same truck that had a car seat in it...a car seat in the FRONT seat.
wth...just dumb all over.

In most other countries leaving a gun in a car, locked or not, is a crime.