Travis McMichael - Guilty across the board
Greg McMichael - Not guilty of Malice Murder, guilty of everything else
William R Bryan - Not guilty of Malice Murder, mostly guilty of the rest
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This is not surprising based on everything we have seen and what most legal analyst I follow were expecting. Branca seemed to be the only one who really believed that they might get off, while McCarthy and most other legal analysts I follow sort of expected the result that we saw. Travis McMichael guilty of everything and the other two not guilty of Malice Murder. The only real question was whether or not Greg McMichael and William Bryan would be found guilty of the lower forms of Murder (non-Malice). In this case they were.
I didn't watch the trial and only caught some of the glimpses of what happened. I still believe that calling Arbery a "jogger" was a blatant misrepresentation of the truth. I still don't trust the media to report on this accurately. This wasn't as cut and dried as it was made out to be. I also don't know what was actually presented to the jury and what was only presented to the public. Many times we question why something was not considered by a jury, only to find out that the information was not every presented or was not allowed to be presented.
All that being said, a jury of 12 have found the three to be all guilty of some form or murder here. So you have to accept that what they witnessed over the course of this trial led to these convictions. Was politics in play? Probably. But that is sort of the reality of what is happening today.
The big lesson to be learned here. If you are going to establish a neighborhood watch to police your neighborhood. Probably not a good idea to arm yourself with rifles and handguns and go chasing people down. Had it not been for the guns and the fact that they tried to detain him (rather than just follow him), then the police might have been able to get involved to whatever degree that they could. Perhaps this guy (one way or the other) decides to stop lurking around your neighborhood and nobody has to die.
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rrbNovember 24, 2021 at 12:41 PM
The Arbery verdict is in.
Expect an alky-lanche of plagiarisms in 5, 4, 3, 2..."
A Georgia jury has convicted three white men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael, who shot fatally shot Arbery in February 2020, was convicted on all nine charges, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder.
McMichael's father, Gregory McMichael, 65, was found not guilty of malice murder, but was convicted on the remaining charges, including the felony murder counts.
Was politics in play? Probably. But that is sort of the reality of what is happening today.
Another example of discrediting of our system of Justice.
LOL. And there it is, right on schedule.
Alky plagiarisms for something we all already knew about.
Like the sun rising in the east...
Three Men Guilty of Murder in Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahmaud-arbery-death-trial-verdict-three-men-found-guilty-of-murder-11637779945
They could be imprisoned for life
I was watching the great science fiction La Brea on paramount plus
C'mon alky!
You can do better than that!
You should be able to drum up 30, maybe 40 more plagiarisms that we already know.
As Stinkfinger Joe says - C'mon MAN!!!
La Brea
Is that the one where Dr Menendez from the Good Doctor is a Pilot who flies a plane into a sinkhole?
"The Times cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Tuesday figures, which reported 386,233 coronavirus related fatalities in the U.S. for 2021. In all of 2020, the U.S. recorded 385,343 fatalities. The former figure is only expected to rise, as there is still over one month left of the year"
Joe Biden resigns his Offie effective Monday, Nov. 29th, 2021.
"“220,000 Americans dead,” Biden said. ”If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this — anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.”
Travis McMichael was found guilty on all counts, including one count of malice murder and four counts of felony murder. Gregory McMichael was found guilty of four counts of felony murder and acquitted on a charge of malice murder. Mr. Bryan was convicted on three counts of felony murder and acquitted on malice murder and an additional felony murder charge.
Mr. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was unarmed when he was confronted by the McMichaels in Satilla Shores, a predominantly white residential area outside Brunswick. Prosecutors argued that Mr. Arbery was out for a run that day and that the defendants hunted him down based on unfounded suspicions that he was a neighborhood thief.
Attorneys for the three men, who are white, argued that they had good reasons to suspect Mr. Arbery was responsible for burglaries and thefts in their neighborhood and that they sought to detain him for police
Mr. Arbery’s death drew national attention after a video showing the fatal shooting circulated, with many Black civil-rights groups and leaders calling it an example of racist vigilantism. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton both attended the trial in support of the Arbery family. The case put laws authorizing citizen’s arrests under scrutiny and led to the passage of a hate-crime law in Georgia.
The men could face life in prison when they are sentenced.
Federal prosecutors have charged the three men with federal hate crimes in connection with the killing.
Yes I love science fiction. I started reading books like that in junior high school.
My mother Marjorie read books all the time and I went to the Library with her..
The librarian would keep books about that for years...
I was a geek kid
La Brea is not far away...
Three Men Guilty of Murder in Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahmaud-arbery-death-trial-verdict-three-men-found-guilty-of-murder-11637779945
They could be imprisoned for life
Is that the one where Dr Menendez from the Good Doctor is a Pilot who flies a plane into a sinkhole?
It's the one where the racist, leftist alcoholic beats his black wife like it's his fucking job until she calls the cops, get's a restraining order, then finally divorces his racist ass.
He loses everything, threatens suicide on social media, then finds himself committed to a nursing home.
It rated a -2 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Too funny and correct RRB
And just like that, thanks to the Arbery verdict the Waukesha BLM Murder Spree went down the MSM memory hole.
Reuters reported
Prosecutors said the defendants had "assumed the worst" about a Black man out on a Sunday afternoon jog. He was chased by the defendants for about five minutes around the looping streets.
Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, looked up appearing to mouth silent prayer in the courtroom as the judge prepared to read out the verdict. As the first guilty verdict was read aloud, she sobbed aloud: "Oh!"
Her head sunk into her chest as she wept, with civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton gripping her hand. Arbery's father Marcus Arbery leapt up and cheered.
Sheriff's deputies came over and told him he had to leave.
"It's been a long time coming," Marcus Arbery said, and left.
Outside the courthouse, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered and cheered yelling "justice" and "yes" as the verdicts were read, some waving flags including one for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Travis McMichael, looking red-faced, turned as he stood to leave the courtroom and mouthed "love you" to his mother, Leigh.
"I'm floored, floored with a capital 'F,'" Laura Hogue, one of Gregory McMichael's lawyers, said in the courtroom.
The verdict follows a jury's Nov. 19 acquittal https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jury-rittenhouse-murder-trial-deliberate-fourth-day-2021-11-19 in another closely watched trial of an 18-year-old named Kyle Rittenhouse who fatally shot two men during racial justice protests in Wisconsin. Both cases highlighted the broader issue of U.S. gun violence that President Joe Biden has called a national embarrassment https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-faces-increased-pressure-act-guns-after-indianapolis-shooting-2021-04-16. In both, defendants claimed self-defense.
The three men face a federal trial next year on hate-crime charges, accused in an indictment of violating Arbery's civil rights by embarking on the fatal chase because of his "race and color."
Some Black Americans used a despairing phrase to describe a case seen as another example of Black people falling under suspicion while innocently doing an everyday activity: "running while Black." Arbery's name was added to those invoked in nationwide anti-racism protests in 2020 that erupted after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, both of whom were Black.
The prosecution was widely seen as another test case in how the U.S. justice system handles instances of unarmed Black people killed by white people. During the trial, there was almost no evidence presented or discussion of race as a motive.
The issue of race hung over the trial. A nearly all-white jury was selected, and one of the defense lawyers repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought the removal of Black pastors and civil rights leaders including the Rev. Jesse Jackson from the courtroom.
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley said he was required to accept the "race-neutral" reasons defense lawyers gave for the removal of all but one potential Black juror. Black activists said it showed again how the justice system was skewed against Black Americans.
CITIZEN'S ARREST
Defense lawyers cited a Georgia law codified during the 19th century U.S. Civil War that allowed anyone to make a citizen's arrest of someone they have reasonable suspicion is fleeing a serious crime they committed. The law was repealed in the wake of Arbery's killing.
Eleven jurors plus one black man convicted them of murder.
The lynch mob lost the battle against Obama and any other color
Prosecutors said the defendants had "assumed the worst" about a Black man out on a Sunday afternoon jog.
Well, they weren't wrong. They just took it too far.
New Rules: They're allowed to Burn, Loot, & Murder and there's nothing that anyone can do about it.
look for BLM, Jackson and Sharpton shouting 'no justice, no peace! at the Darrell Brooks trial in Waukesha.
And if he's convicted, BLM burns the town to the fucking ground.
Arbery murderers found guilty of murder
All three men involved in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery have been found guilty. All things considered, this has not been a bad week for the criminal justice system.
Prosecutors portrayed the Georgia defendants as dangerous vigilantes who cornered an unarmed man with their pickup trucks in suburban Satilla Shores. “This isn’t the Wild West,” prosecutor Linda Dunikoski told jurors, saying that the accused jumped to assumptions about a “Black man running down the street.”
The exact example of what I have been saying for years now.
Jackson and Sharpton are cheering for justice because justice has been served rrb
rrbNovember 24, 2021 at 12:41 PM
The Arbery verdict is in.
Expect an alky-lanche of plagiarisms in 5, 4, 3, 2..."
Roger is predictable.
Legal Insurrection
VERDICT
(Will mark up this list when announced)
COUNT l – MALICE MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Not Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty
COUNT 2 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Aggravated Assault
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty
COUNT 3 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Aggravated Assault
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
COUNT 4 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – False Imprisonment
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
COUNT 5 – FELONY MURDER, O.C.G.A. 16-5-1 – Criminal Attempt to Commit False Imprisonment
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
COUNT 6 – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-21 – Assault with firearm, deadly weapon, to wit: a 12 gauge
shotgun
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Not Guilty
COUNT 7 – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-21 – Assault with a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
COUNT 8 – FALSE IMPRISONMENT, O.C.G.A. 16-5-41 – Unlawfully confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery without legal authority, to wit: said accused did chase Ahmaud Arbery with a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck through the public roadways of the Satilla Shores neighborhood and did confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery on Holmes Drive using said pickup trucks.
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
COUNT 9 – CRIMINAL ATTEMPT TO COMMIT A FELONY, O.C.G.A. 16-4-1 – In violation of the personal liberty of Ahmaud Arbery, unlawfully chase Ahmaud Arbery through the public roadways of the Satilla Shores neighborhood in pickup trucks and did attempt to confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery without legal authority on Burford Drive using a Ford F-150 pickup truck and a Chevy Silverado pickup truck.
TRAVIS MCMICHAEL Guilty
GREG MCMICHAEL Guilty
WILLIAM R BRYAN Guilty
Hey Roger..
We know the story. Why do you continue to repost it from different sources over and over?
Is it dementia? Are you not aware of how many times you are repeating yourself?
Even funnier is that all of Lil Schitty's prayers from yesterday were shoved up his ass with this outcome......So much for his expertise in the law as all he did was post others opinions he found to his liking !!!!!!!! Racists got what they deserve and I sure don't feel sorry for them or any of the other racists that post here!!!!!!!!
Biden released oil to reduce world oil prices .
Federal Reserve wants to see 7% inflation before raising Rates.
Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris
NOVEMBER 24, 2021STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Today, the jury rendered its verdicts and the three defendants were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Still, we feel the weight of grief. Ahmaud Arbery should be alive, and nothing can take away the pain that his mother Wanda Cooper-Jones, his father Marcus Arbery, and the entire Arbery family and community feel today. I share in that pain.
These verdicts send an important message, but the fact remains that we still have work to do. The defense counsel chose to set a tone that cast the attendance of ministers at the trial as intimidation and dehumanized a young Black man with racist tropes. The jury arrived at its verdicts despite these tactics.
Ahmaud Arbery was a son. He was a brother. He was a friend. His life had meaning. We will not forget him. We honor him best by continuing the fight for justice.
You don't understand, that I will say something multiple times, to trigger you into calling me demented.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Yeah, that's it alky. You obvious mental illness is the fault of anyone but you.
LOL.
You don't trigger anyone pal. You're too fucking stupid. And you're a side show to the blog.
JUSTICE DOES SOMETIMES STILL TAKE PLACE IN AMERICA
T. Goddard reports
the ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYS
Men Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery Convicted of Murder
“All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.
AXIOS SAYS:
“PROSECUTORS ONLY PURSUED THE CASE after a video of the killing went viral in May 2020 SPARKING A NATIONAL OUTRAGE.”
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IF THERE HAD NOT BEEN THAT VIDEO,
this would have been buried under justifiable self defense against an enraged robber would-be killer.
IT HAS BEEN THE SAME WITH MANY POLICE SHOOTINGS OF UNARMED BLACKS, SOIMETIMES IN THE BACK AS THEY FLED.
IF THERE HAD BEEN NO VIDEO,
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CONVICTION.
rrb is a cesspool to the blog
The President said.
"While the guilty verdicts reflect our justice system doing its job, that alone is not enough," Biden said in a written statement shortly after the verdict was announced. "Instead, we must recommit ourselves to building a future of unity and shared strength, where no one fears violence because of the color of their skin."
I'm old enough to understand how important it is. In the 60s the white men would not have been charged for crimes.
"Instead, we must recommit ourselves to building a future of unity and shared strength, where no one fears violence because of the color of their skin."
Uh huh. You drooling dementia fuck.
Here's to hoping that Kyle Rittenhouse sues your decrepit ass for at least $100 MILLION for slandering him as a "white supremacist" when you were a private citizen. Let's see your crack addict son sell enough paintings to cover THAT tab.
Blogger Decent, honest teller of truth said...
rrb is a cesspool to the blog
Says the "pastor" who anally rapes pre-pubescent boys like it's his fucking JOB.
The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man who had the gall to jog through a mostly White neighborhood, was nothing but a classic lynching of the kind that could have happened a century ago.
We can say that in plain English now, with no hemming and hawing, following Wednesday’s jury verdict finding Arbery’s killers guilty of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment — the same crimes that White lynch mobs once regularly committed against Black Americans with impunity.
Lawyers for the three defendants — Travis McMichael; his father, Greg McMichael; and their friend William “Roddie” Bryan — played the race card repeatedly throughout the trial, perhaps seeing it as the only card they had. In Brunswick, Ga., a town where almost 60 percent of the population is Black, they managed to seat a jury with only one Black member. They resorted to just about every racist trope used to denigrate and demonize Black men over the years, suggesting that the armed killers had reason to fear the slight Arbery’s allegedly inhuman strength and malice. One defense lawyer, Laura Hogue, even went so far as to tell the jury that Arbery had “long, dirty toenails.”
Those defense attorneys utterly failed. It took just 11 hours of deliberation for the almost all-White jury to find the three White defendants guilty of lynching a Black man. Maybe there’s a glimmer of hope for justice in these United States after all.
rrb is puking in anger in the cesspool of the blog
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