covered in suspicious persons, in extra watches, in neighborhood patrols and concerned citizens. reporter: insisting arbery s presence was suspicious. there is no evidence whatsoever that it was a place of exercise and jogging for ahmaud arbery. reporter: gregory mcmichael s attorney continued the theme arbery was in the neighborhood up to no good, suggesting that was obvious by his appearance. does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores. khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails. reporter: laura repeated over and over that arbery was to blame for his own death. he was a recurring nighttime intruder, and that is frightening and unsettling. reporter: and william bryan s
intruder, and that is frightening and unsettling. turning ahmaud arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails. what was that about with the toenails? let s bring in marilyn mosby and mark o mara now. mark, do you believe the defense has a chance of getting any of the defendants off on some if not all of these charges? yes, i do for a couple of reasons. geography matters in a case like this. this case is being tried in brunswick, georgia, there is a skew in favor of the defense as far as the racial makeup of the
shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails reporter: with that, an audible wow from arbery s mother who briefly left the courtroom. regardless of what kind of toenails he had, what size legs he had, that was still my son. and my son actually was running for his life. sam, when is the jury expected to get the case reporter: deliberations, lester, could begin as soon as tomorrow afternoon the prosecutors in this case expected to use a full two hours for rebuttal the last thing the jury will hear tomorrow morning. all right sam brock, thank you just developing tonight, the house committee investigating the january 6th capitol riot issued new subpoenas. kristin welker is at the white house. kristin, these are high-profile allies of former president trump. that s right. the january 6th committee is widening
travis mcmichael spent almost a decade of his life learning about duty and responsibility. reporter: arguing to the jury his quote, duty was necessary that february day. this neighborhood was being covered in suspicious persons and extra watches and neighborhood patrols and concerned citizens. reporter: insisting arbery s presence was suspicious. there is no evidence that it was a place of exercise and jogging for arbery. reporter: gregory s attorney continued the theme, arbery was in the neighborhood up to no good suggesting by his appearance. does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery there. in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails. laura hogue repeated over and
trial, self-defense can be a difficult thing to disprove. did the prosecution effectively dismantle these arguments made by the defense in this killing of ahmaud arbery? i think they were very effective overall. however, i have to say i was shocked by a couple of the closings today. the primary one being laura hogue speaking on behalf of greg mcmichael. ending her closing argument to the jury by saying he had long, dirty toenails. that was one of the most disgusting, disgraceful things i ve heard an attorney say in a criminal proceeding throughout my career. i could tell you this. if you said something like that in a northern courtroom, you d be held in contempt of court. there might even be a mistrial. it s just a racist and improper statement. the other big surprise i think was how effective kevin, the attorney for bryan was, during his summation.