Guilty

[jon-nyc]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial

Justice really has had a good week. Rittenhouse acquitted, these guys learning how to be good prison wives. Two good results.

[George K]

Seen on Twitter: "The justice system and juries work, despite what you were told last week."

[George K]

I hadn't really followed the trial that closely, but reading the verdicts, I see that each of the defendants was charged with several counts of felony murder.

COUNT l – MALICE MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Not Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty

COUNT 2 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Aggravated Assault

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty

COUNT 3 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Aggravated Assault

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

COUNT 4 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – False Imprisonment

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

COUNT 5 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Criminal Attempt to Commit False Imprisonment

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

COUNT 6 – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-21 – Assault with firearm, deadly weapon, to wit: a 12 gauge
shotgun

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty

COUNT 7 – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-21 – Assault with a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

COUNT 8 – FALSE IMPRISONMENT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-41 – Unlawfully confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery without legal authority, to wit: said accused did chase Ahmaud Arbery with a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck through the public roadways of the Satilla Shores neighborhood and did confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery on Holmes Drive using said pickup trucks.

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

COUNT 9 – CRIMINAL ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A FELONY, O.C.G.A. 16-4-1 – In violation of the personal liberty of Ahmaud Arbery, unlawfully chase Ahmaud Arbery through the public roadways of the Satilla Shores neighborhood in pickup trucks and did attempt to confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery without legal authority on Burford Drive using a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck.

TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty

[Mik]

That's a great deal of work for the jury to have done and kept track of. Good job.

[George K]

My understanding of "Felony Murder" is that if a murder occurs during the act of committing a felony, even though you didn't actually commit the actual murder, you're guilty of felony murder.

So, if a bank robber shoots and kills a guard, and you're driving the getaway car, you'd be charged with felony murder.

I really don't understand the multiple counts.

[jon-nyc]

Me neither but this article helped:

Prosecutors say the men committed four felonies: two counts of aggravated assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. So the men faced four counts of felony murder.

More at the link:

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/8747459002

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Life sentences.

https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-georgia-race-and-ethnicity-sentencing-savannah-0d1a8ed25f1a075844160f253a9d0535

[George K]

The community turned out in support:

[Jolly]

Idiots.

[Mik]

Their story did not hold up. Even if he were there to steal from a construction site, what was he going to carry away?

But it is hard for me to believe life without parole is justified.

[LuFins Dad]

@mik said in Guilty:

Their story did not hold up. Even if he were there to steal from a construction site, what was he going to carry away?

But it is hard for me to believe life without parole is justified.

That’s another discussion that I’ve felt building in the population but to a larger extent here… It really is past time to examine the purpose, nature, and mechanism of incarceration. Is it to punish? Is it to reform? Is it to protect the public? The answer to all of these questions is yes, but to what extent?

[Mik]

Good questions. The other question is there a way to achieve better outcomes?

Still, in this case I think the felony murder rule was to some degree misapplied. Do their actions meet the letter of the law? Yeah. But these three did not set out to kill someone, and in their minds, they did not intend to commit a crime. Were they stupid and unjustified? Certainly.

[taiwan_girl]

Nohilly testified Wednesday as the first prosecution witness in the criminal misconduct trial of former District Attorney Jackie Johnson, coastal Glynn County's top prosecutor when Arbery was killed nearly five years ago.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's office is prosecuting Johnson on charges that she violated her oath of office and interfered with police investigating Arbery's killing.

But Johnson's defense lawyers seized on opportunities to use Nohilly and a second prosecution witness Wednesday to undercut prosecutors' arguments that Johnson abused her power to delay arrests and influence the appointment of an outside prosecutor who had decided Arbery was killed in self-defense.

The former DA is being prosecuted by Georgia's attorney general

https://www.yahoo.com/news/youre-going-home-police-tell-184036637.html