If the roles were reversed (as they are MULTIPLE TIMES every year), the black killer would get 20, 10 with good behavior.
If my aunt had balls she would have been my uncle........
For our great Freeper legal minds, a question: Bryan, the driver of the second car, joined in the chase when he saw the others drive by. (Going off of memory here) So Bryan knew the others were former law enforcement and he assumed that the chase was legal. He joined in it, I think used his vehicle to box Arbery onto the road, and then we all know how it ended. I am trying to recall analogous facts that supported a felony murder conviction. In every felony murder case I can remember, the defendant knowingly joins in a committing a crime that he knew or should have known could end up in unlawful violence. Like agreeing to be the getaway driver or the lookout for a robbery. So I guess my question is over the level of intent that was required on Bryan’s part.
My second issue with this case is the apparent exclusion of lots of evidence that Arbery was not just a law-abiding “jogger”. It seems to me that if the defendants’ suspicion that Arbery was engaged in criminal conduct (and I do not think anyone doubts that was the defendants’ sincere belief), the fact that they were actually correct should matter, whereas the judge seems to have ruled that the only actual evidence available to them at the time was relevant.