Three Men Found Guilty Of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery
Laura Coates Live
CNN
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A Georgia jury has found all three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder. They could face life in prison without parole. CNN Legal Analyst Joey Jackson and defense attorney Mark O’Mara join to give their perspectives on the verdict.
A man wrongfully convicted of murder is freed after more than four decades in prison. Kevin Strickland joins to talk about being exonerated after 43 years in one of the longest wrongful conviction cases in the U.S. That, as wave of organized retail thefts costing $30 billion a year in losses hits upscale stores in major cities, with Sacramento being one of the worst affected. California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins to discuss how he intends to combat this growing crime trend in his state.
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| 0:00.0 | The news continues, so let's hand it over to Michael Sprakhanish in for |
| 0:05.0 | Quistanite on Cuomo Prime Time. John Berman, thank you. I am Michael |
| 0:09.5 | Sprakhanish in for Chris Cuomo. Welcome to prime time on this Thanksgiving |
| 0:13.0 | Eve. There's no longer any need to use the word alleged. It was murder. A jury |
| 0:18.8 | has spoken. All three white defendants in Georgia convicted by an almost all |
| 0:23.7 | white jury in the deep south of murdering a mod artery, the unarmed black |
| 0:28.3 | jogger in 2020. This was a trial that many had viewed as another test for |
| 0:32.9 | racial bias in the justice system. And by that measure, it was a good day for |
| 0:37.5 | equal justice under the law of the 27 total charges for Travis and Greg McMichael |
| 0:43.4 | and William Roddy Bryan only four resulted in not guilty verdicts. |
| 0:48.6 | The man who pulled the trigger and killed Arbery, Travis with Michael, |
| 0:52.5 | found guilty on all nine of his counts. |
| 0:57.2 | Count one, Malice murder, guilty, count two, felony murder, guilty, count three, |
| 1:05.5 | felony murder, guilty, count four, felony murder, guilty, count five, |
| 1:13.0 | felony murder, guilty, count six, aggravated assault, guilty, count seven, |
| 1:20.9 | aggravated assault, guilty, count eight, false imprisonment, guilty, count nine, |
| 1:28.4 | criminal attempt to commit a felony, guilty. This has been a long time coming for |
| 1:33.1 | the Arbery family and all who've been standing with them. This case went |
| 1:36.8 | 74 days without an arrest. The first DA on the case was indicted for |
| 1:41.2 | obstructing this investigation. Another had to recuse himself due to a conflict |
| 1:45.3 | of interest because of his ties to the McMichael's and a third step down due to a |
| 1:49.7 | lack of sufficient resources. This trial almost never happened |
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