Federal Judge Rejects Plea Deal For Man Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery After Family Outrage

Huff Po ^ | 1/31/22 | Phillip Jackson

[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.

[Republican in occupied CA]

Good points well ordered and argued.

[DiogenesLamp]

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.