The jury reached a verdict in the trial.
The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of the McMichaels and Bryans.
The three men, who are white, face charges of malice murder, felony murder, felony assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was Black, on February 23, 2020, in Georgia.
If they are found guilty of the more serious charges, they will face up to life in prison.
The jury, which has one Black member, began deliberations on Tuesday.
The McMichaels and Bryan chased Arbery in pickup trucks after they saw him running in their neighborhood. McMichael shot Arbery with a shotgun. Bryan recorded the fatal encounter.
The leaked video brought the world to the attention of the three men.
Civil rights leaders and Arbery's family have compared his death to a lynching.
The defense had argued that the men suspected Arbery was a criminal and that residents in the Satilla Shores subdivision were on edge. Arbery was recorded on security camera video visiting a partially built home in the neighborhood. The videos did not show Arbery taking anything. The last video was recorded the day he died. Arbery was seen visiting the home minutes before he was chased by the McMichaels and Bryan.
The defense tried to convince the jury that their clients were trying to execute a citizen's arrest, which was legal at the time. Attorneys for McMichael said he opened fire in self-defense.
The defendants made a series of "assumptions and driveway decisions" that led to Arbery's death, and the three men had no idea that a crime had been committed, according to Linda Dunikoski. She said that citizen's arrest can be claimed if immediate knowledge of a crime is present. Dunikoski told the jurors that the men couldn't claim to have acted in self-defense without the claim of citizen's arrest.
If you determine that this was not a citizen's arrest, then he can't do this based on the law. Dunikoski said. They are not justified in killing him. They are not justified in any of the crimes they committed against him.
During the trial, McMichael said he shot Arbery after he was struck.
We were together. He testified that he shot when he was struck. McMichael believed he was in a life-or-death situation.
Under cross-examination by Dunikoski, McMichael said that Arbery hadn't shown a weapon or spoken to him before he raised his shotgun. Bryan and Gregory McMichael did not testify.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. A jury in Georgia deliberated for more than six hours on Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the case of three white men who shot and killed a black man. McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, assault, and false imprisonment. The jury of 11 white men and women and one Black man was instructed by the judge to ignore the defense's closing arguments and listen to the prosecution's rebuttal.
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Lawyers for the three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbrey, an African American shot in 2020 while jogging in Georgia, used different strategies to try to show that the killing was justified.
The white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery in cold blood in Georgia last February were accused of being a modern-day lynching under the guise of law enforcement. McMichael was found guilty of malice murder in the death of Arbery. Greg McMichael is the son of his father.
Henry Johnson can be found in the garage of his home often. The murder trial of three white men who shot and killed a black man in their neighborhood in February 2020 is the main topic of conversation at church services, cookouts and morning walks. Many people in Satilla Shores, a mostly white community on the outskirts of Brunswick, believe that the shooting of Arbery was not criminal.
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