evidence or they have a lot more deliberation to go. either they re there with the verdict and someone just needed that extra little push by looking at that evidence or they are at the end of their rope and they re going for today and they will deliberate much longer. i think in georgia, this is really, really a critical time. there is so much at stake and so much that is under a microscope, especially the racial discrimination, the tensions between different groups in florida in georgia, and also the conscious of this state. that s what we are seeing through this trial involving the shooting and killing of ahmaud arbery. you know, cal, i noticed some movement behind you a moment ago. do we have some news out of the courtroom? we have some news out of the pool report. the pool report is indicated, indicating that there s been a verdict reach. i want to be clear about
gasps in the courtroom when she said that and ahmaud arbery s mother had to leave the courtroom, tripping as she tried to get out as quickly as she could. it seems as if that sort of race-baiting, as many have described it, backfired. absolutely it backfired, because i think at the end of the day we re talking about a young boy who lost his life. whether he had clean fingernails or dirty fingernails is completely irrelevant. there is a more artful way to state that and i think what she was going for, who really knows, but i think what she was going for is that he was not an avid runner. remember, the prosecution was not allowed to enter that into evidence. she wanted to say he had no reason being there, he wasn t there jogging through, he was there for a specific purpose, that specific purpose was to
said. again, all three men convicted of felony murder in the killing of ahmaud arbery. although, the counts differ for the three men. let s try to figure out what exactly happened there. danny, the big headline, travis mcmichael, the man who pulled the trig r, held the gun, pulled the trigger, found guilty of all nine counts. his father not found guilty of malice murder. that s count one. why would the jury decide that? that s an interesting result. what the jury is saying is that travis mcmichael committed felonies. those felonies resulted in the death of ahmaud arbery and that he intended at least with malice as that s defined in the law to shoot and kill ahmaud arbery. what the jury concluded apparently as to his father was that he was guilty of all the felonies, false imprisonment, threatening him with a gun and that those felonies caused the death of ahmaud arbery. although they concluded that he did not actually cause the death
three defendants. they re accused of different varying degrees of different things. one of the defendants, william roddie bryan, ck, is not accused of pulling the trigger. his lawyer says he was just following along. he was just taping. he wasn t a party to any of this. the prosecutor said, no, he was a party to this. he was the one trying to coral ahmaud arbery in. she used a football metaphor. if you win the super bowl, everybody on the team gets a super bowl ring, even the ones that are sitting off on the sidelines. everybody gets a ring because everybody is involved, everybody is involved in that outcome. what are the chances that william roddie bryan gets a different sentence, that the jury sees it differently, sees his participation as lesser than the mcmichaels? i think there is a good chance they may see his participation somewhat lesser. but we have to remember that he did drive his vehicle.
juries. tell us what we should know looking in from the outside. i think what is important, very important to note is that the citizens arrest law is something that s not was not well known at the time of ahmaud arbery s killing. and, so, that citizen s arrest law is being tried in this case. i think it is very interesting that the jury asked to look at the videos and asked to listen to the 911 call as well as the audio. all of those three pieces of evidence, if you will, point to the citizens arrest law, whether it is valid, and also point to the defense of self-defense under georgia law. those are three critical pieces of evidence. if i m the defense right now, i m feeling uneasy that the jurors wanted to listen to and see that evidence. and, so, either we ve got descension in the room and somebody needs to be persuaded on one side or the other by that