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Federal Judge Rejects Plea Deal For Man Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery After Family Outrage
Huff Po ^ | 1/31/22 | Phillip Jackson

Posted on 01/31/2022 2:43:30 PM PST by DoodleDawg

A federal judge rejected a plea deal Monday afternoon that would have allowed one of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery to avoid a federal hate crime trial.

U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood heard arguments Monday from Arbery’s family and prosecutors after the Department of Justice struck a plea deal with Arbery’s killers Gregory and Travis McMichael over the weekend.

Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Arbery, had his plea deal tossed out by Wood. A decision was not yet made on Gregory McMichael’s plea deal.

Arbery’s family was outraged that the plea would allow the McMichaels to serve time in federal prison instead of the Georgia state system.

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KEYWORDS: 97to0; ahmaudarbery; arbery; dubyajudge; gregorymcmichael; grewinoffice; sdgeorgia; smirkingchimpjudge; travismcmichael
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To: DiogenesLamp

Good points well ordered and argued.


41 posted on 02/01/2022 12:58:46 PM PST by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: Republican in occupied CA
Good points well ordered and argued.

I may not have convinced you, but at least you had the courtesy to consider what I've said.

Reasonable people are not so common anymore as I would like. It is good to engage with people who can disagree civilly.

Much respect to you.

42 posted on 02/01/2022 1:26:08 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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