In sentencing the three in the Georgia state court, Judge Walmsley said that in our system, “everybody is accountable to the rule of law.” And so they are.
A federal judge rejected a plea deal in the federal hate crimes case for two of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, Gregory and Travis McMichael.
Arbery s parents came out against the plea deal, which they called an unauthorized backroom deal that is a huge accommodation to the men who hunted down and murdered their son.
Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered sentences to the convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery on Jan. 7. The 25-year-old Black man was chased and trapped by the pickup truck-driving, shotgun-wielding father and son team of Gregory and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, on Feb. 23, 2020, in Satilla Shores,…