Too little info at this point. My guess is they use the charge to get him to take the stand for the prosecution and say whatever they tell him to say. Then he walks.
Same tactic used to get Flynn to plead guilty. Typical prosecutorial overreach
> Too little info at this point. My guess is they use the charge to get him to take the stand for the prosecution and say whatever they tell him to say. Then he walks. <
Good post.
It seems to me that the neighbors had Arbery pretty well pegged as the suspected burglar and the smart thing to do was just keep recording him, with dates and times, and give copies of the recordings to the police for them to take action. Attempting a citizens’ arrest on flaky information and doing it while armed was just plain dumb and led to one dead man plus three who’ve had their lives ruined for being a bit too quick on the trigger.
All part of a corrupt system intended to force confessions under duress. Very Soviet like.
“My guess is they use the charge to get him to take the stand for the prosecution and say whatever they tell him to say. Then he walks.”
Some reports say the third arrestee has changed his story several times since the incident. If he were to get caught by the defense attorneys saying “whatever they tell him to say” while on the stand as a prosecution witness, it might raise more reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors.
The more people on the stand saying conflicting things under oath increases - not decreases - reasonable doubt.