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He used his cellphone to record video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery as he tried to run around the McMichaels' idling truck. They later told police they suspected he was a burglar, though they did not see him committing any crimes.Д«ryan joined the chase in his own truck, telling police he used the vehicle to force Arbery into a ditch and cut off his escape from the subdivision. The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and jumped in a pickup truck after they spotted Arbery running past their home on a Sunday afternoon last year. The three men now face hate crime charges at the federal level that allege they violated Arbery's civil rights.

#S and s pools trial#

The first trial in Arbery's slaying, seen by many as a reckoning on racial injustice in the legal system, resulted in murder convictions in a state court the day before Thanksgiving. Above, from left, Travis McMichael, Bryan, and Greg McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia.

The three now face charges of committing a hate crime. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William 'Roddie' Bryan were found guilty of murder. 7.ДЄttorneys file a joint motion for the federal hate crime trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery to have the jury pool cover the Southern District of Georgia to have a better chance of an impartial jury. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Feb. 'The parties believe that it is likely that many potential jurors from the Brunswick Division will have experienced sustained exposure to the case and may have formed immutable opinions, in one direction or the other, that will ultimately preclude them from sitting on a jury in this case,' the attorneys said in a joint motion. To prevent that from happening again, the attorneys filed a joint motion to have the jury selection for the federal trial to cover 43 counties made up of 1.6 million people instead of strictly from Glynn County and its six neighboring counties.

However, news reporting on Arbery's death was extensively covered during that time and most jurors knew the basic facts of the case before the trial had even begun. The murder trial was previously held in Glynn County, from where the jurors were selected.

The three now face charges of committing a hate crime in which they're accused of confronting Arbery only because he was Black. Both prosecution and defense attorneys filed a joint motion Thursday for the upcoming federal hate crime trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery to have the jury pool cover the Southern District of Georgia, aiming for a better chance of an impartial jury.ДЇather and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William 'Roddie' Bryan were found guilty of murder in the death of Arbery.