"[Federal] Prosecutors Strike Hate-Crime Plea Deals in Ahmaud Arbery Killing"

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Mark Pitcavage
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Two of the defendants agreed to federal plea deals (all three were previously convicted on the state charges). Arbery's mother not happy with the plea deals.

https://nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crime-plea-deal.html…

"[Federal] Prosecutors Strike Hate-Crime Plea Deals in Ahmaud Arbery Killing"
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, center, objected to the federal prosecutors’ plea deals, saying they went behind her back.
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Prosecutors Strike Hate-Crime Plea Deals in Ahmaud Arbery Killing
The victim’s mother denounced the deals made with two of the three men convicted of murder, saying she wants a federal trial to put any self-defense arguments to rest.
10:23 AM · Jan 31, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crime-plea-deal.html

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ATLANTA — Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with two of the three white men facing federal hate-crimes charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, the Black man who was chased through a Georgia neighborhood and fatally shot, court documents show.

The men, Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, were found guilty of murder along with a third man, William Bryan, 52, in a Georgia state court in November.

The case was widely viewed as an act of racial violence. But while prosecutors in the state trial had considered introducing what they described as “racial” evidence, including inflammatory Facebook posts and text messages from the three men, they ultimately touched only lightly on racial themes in making their case to the nearly all-white jury.

Prosecutors in the federal hate-crimes trial, which is scheduled to begin next week in Brunswick, Ga., were expected to argue that the men were motivated by racism.

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