‘No good deed goes unpunished,’ accused Ahmaud Arbery killer said in jail phone call defense is trying to exclude from trial
Nelson Oliveira
Attorneys for the three Georgia men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery want all recordings of phone calls the suspects had in jail excluded from the upcoming trial, one of multiple requests under consideration at a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
In one of the phone calls cited in court, ex-cop Gregory McMichael was heard telling his brother that “no good deed goes unpunished,” an apparent reference to their arrest over Arbery’s death last year. The exact context of that conversation was not clear, but the suspect’s attorney told the judge that prosecutors could use such phone calls to mislead the jury, telling them, for instance, that the “good deed” was the killing of Arbery.