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#BAND IN A BOX TRIAL TRIAL#
Now, people who have been watching this trial think that's going to be a tough argument given that the men went in armed pursuit of Arbery and he had no weapon. McMichael, you know, admitted on the stand that he fatally shot Arbery, but he said he did so in self-defense because he was afraid when Arbery tried to get his shotgun away.
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They'll portray a neighborhood on edge because of car break-ins and surveillance video that showed people, including Ahmaud Arbery, trespassing at a house under construction. They will argue that this was an attempt at a citizen's arrest that turned tragic when Arbery fought back. The defendants will argue that he was running fast, like he was running away from something, and that's what made them suspicious. So what will defense lawyers argue in their closing today?ĮLLIOTT: Now, we should say that his family says he was jogging. MARTINEZ: He was just running or jogging. LINDA DUNIKOSKI: Didn't brandish any weapons.ĭUNIKOSKI: Never reached for anything, did he? She also asked him what it was that prompted him and his father, Greg, to arm themselves and pursue Arbery in a pickup truck after seeing him running down the street. And on cross-examination, prosecutor Linda Dunikoski zeroed in on inconsistencies between what he was testifying to on the stand and what he had told investigators back in February of 2020 when all of this happened.
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When Travis McMichael draws his shotgun, Arbery fights back, and McMichael shoots him at close range in a struggle.Ī key moment in testimony last week came when Travis McMichael was on the witness stand in his own defense. Now, prosecutors have spent these last few weeks building a case around graphic cellphone video that was actually recorded by the defendant Bryan, and it shows the men using pickup trucks to corner Ahmaud Arbery as he's trying to run away. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and a neighbor of theirs, William "Roddie" Bryan, are on trial for murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment. Debbie, let's start with a review of the charges and what we've learned from testimony.ĭEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: OK. NPR's Debbie Elliott joins us now from Brunswick, Ga. The suspects who chased him down are claiming self-defense. Nobody denies that one of the men shot and killed him. The jury will hear closing arguments today in the Georgia murder trial of three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man shot to death as he was jogging down a residential street.