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ahmaud arbery case. it garnered national attention after video surfaced of the men chasing and shooting the 25-year-old black man in a georgia rez decialg neighborhood nearly two years ago. the father and son, greg and travis mcmichael, were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. their neighbor, william bryan, who filmed the pursuit, received life with the possibility of parole. bryan will first have to serve at least 30 years in prison before he s eligible. well, during the sentencing hearing, aubrey s sister recalled her brother s humor, describing him as a positive thinker with a big personality. cbs mark strassmann is outside the courthouse in brunswick, georgia for us. good evening, mark. reporter: good evening, norah. outside this courthouse, several dozen people listening by speaker cheered when the judge announced the sentence. nearly two years after ahmaud arbery was killed, his family sees justice in a case that almost never came to trial. we are all accoun
reporter: account act in america s latest moment of racial reckoning. three life sentences, two without chance of parole. in a relieved georgia community, ahmaud arbery s family still churns. when i. close my eyes, i see his execution in my mind over and over. i ll see that for the rest of my life. reporter: the 25-year-old arbery went jogging and ended up running for his life. for five minutes in february 2020, three white georgia men in pickup trucks pursued a black man on foot they suspected was a burglar, trapping him like a rat in the words of defendant gregory mcmichael. two 12-gauge shotgun blasts tore pointblank into arbery, even though gunman travis mcmichael later testified arbery never threatened him. didn t pull out any guns? no, ma am. didn t pull out any knife. no, ma am.
Jackie Johnson, a former Georgia District Attorney, is facing five years in prison for allegedly violating her oath of office and obstructing justice in the Ahmaud Arbery case.
someone has to take the stand to explain what was going on through one of their minds at the time the ennis dernt occurred. the attorneys get together to figure out which might be the best person to articulate that and demonstrate the fear. the attorneys decided travis mcmichael was best suited to do that. as we saw from that blistering cross-examination, you know, there were some points that were made by the state clearly and it was a risk. and i think that in the end the gamble might not have paid off. she clearly drove home the point that they had the trucks. they had the gun. they were chased him. they were the people chasing toward him. they were the aggressors. she made that point pretty vividly. in your state of wisconsin, the jury is still deliberating over kyle rittenhouse. next week is a short week with the holidays. what do you think of the fact there hasn t been a verdict yet? do we make anything of that? why does the judge letting a juror take the instructions home