camerota. after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations, jurors find all three defendants in the ahmaud arbery murder trial guilty of murder. ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda, was visibly emotional as the verdict was read. you can see that crowds outside of the courthouse are chanting ahmaud arbery as the guilty verdicts came in and were celebrating. let s go straight to sara isidnr and ryan young. tell us the reaction you re seeing around you, guys. reporter: we re just outside the court where people have been, waiting in chairs sometimes, sometimes milling about. they have now all gathered out in front of the courthouse, the courthouse steps where we have seen the mother of ahmaud arbery and her attorneys, lee merritt, going in and out of court every single day of this trial. they have been chanting his name, they have been saying we ve got justice.
come, that she didn t even think justice was possible, and it s a complicated day. it s a complicated day because we had to go through a lot of d.a.s to get here. it s not as though this case went straight to trial. it s a complicated day because the mother and the father had to fight vigilantly to get the case to even be heard in the first place, and it s a complicated day baecause we have to ask questions like what if the killers had not videoed themselves, and we look at america, now the cases that are successful, george floyd and this case, are all cases where there has been video. what if there weren t video, what lies would the defense have told if there wasn t video. what does this say about us the only time you can get the justice you ought to have is when there s a video, and in this case if the killers had not been so arrogant in their racism, and the lawyers had not
savidge who is on the ground now. you have information on where the three defendants, now convicted reporter: right, as you were listening to the three, as they were being led out of the courthouse, they were wearing leg shackles and handcuffs, and taken individually to the vehicles that will transport them back to the glenn county detention center where they have been held throughout this trial. what s next is sentencing in this particular case but not long after, you have the federal proceedings. remember that all three men have been charged federally with hate crimes, and that trial is also going to take place right here in brunswick, georgia, and it s slated to begin with jury selection on february 7th. now, one thing to know about the jury selection is it s a district, so it will cover many counties but glenn county is among them, so the jury pool is likely to be potentially even
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trial in the normal sense of what we typically experience, and so to the extent that that has play add role in this or played a role in the verdict, we don t fully understand it right now but i m sure in the oncoming months we ll get more information about it. i don t think any single case is a referendum on a criminal justice system in america. this case was about these people at this moment in time. we had good prosecutors, good defense lawyers, and a good judge all working hard to make sure justice occurred in this courtroom, and whether the verdict had been the way it went or had been the other way, not guilty, justice would have happened in this courtroom, and it doesn t speak about the larger problems in america. we haven t had second thoughts about it. i m sure that our decision to keep the case here, to not move for a change of venue will be discussed at nauseam, and it will certainly and could certainly become a part of the appeal. right now, we are respecting the