and so if they re going to spend their time in the state system and then have to serve their federal time, which would typically be the requirements, since they were convicted first in the state court, then they decide to move ahead and sort of roll the dice with this trial. tra in the state trial, you ll recall that prosecutors meticulously pieced together a timeline of events that led to ahmaud arbery s murder, but there s additional information that will be presented to the jury in the federal case. walk us through what the federal jury might see that s dicfferen from what the state court saw. this is a different case completely. the question of the murder is not there anymore. that s on tape. and state prosecutors made a decision to move forward without getting into too many elements of motivation. they dmoid not look for racial motivation or present that to the jury. this case hinges on whether or not that racial motivation was part of the reason that mr.
right now jury selection is under way in a federal hate crimes trial against the three men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery. this second trial will focus on whether the actions by father and son, travis and gregory mcmichael and william brian were racially motivated leading up to arbery s killing. the trial is moving forward after they withdrew their pleas last week when a judge rejected them. so they have already been under a state trial. they were sentenced to life in prison. explain how this federal trial fits in. well, chris, good morning. this is going to look different because issues of race are going to come to the forefront of the trial in the way we didn t see in the state trial.
okay, we have some breaking news right now. this is in the story that we just brought you moments ago. a judge has just rejected that plea agreement in the travis mcmichael hate crime charge. they were both convicted of murdering applaud arbery in that trial. and they ve been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. this is in the travis mcmichael deal. we ll see what the next steps are for those two defendants on the federal level. okay. on a much lighter note. sports fans, listen up. the super bowl, apparently a big football game. oh, yeah. when will it be played? i hear it is coming up. let me tell you all about it. the cincinnati bengals are set to play the los angeles rams.
point or were talking about to other people. in fact, let s put some of those on the screen. i have to warn some folks, some of the language may be sort of crude so here we go with these text messages. there s a text message that was placed out yesterday by travis mcmichael that said zero n words work with me. they ruin everything. that s why i love what i do now. not an n-word in sight. and then gregory mcmichael talking about the civil rights leader julian bond. i wish he d been put in the ground years ago. he was nothing but trouble. those blacks are nothing but trouble. and, of course, throughout this, we believe the federal case will be pushing on the fact of why these men were so angry when ahmaud arbery was running through the neighborhood. there s one thing that s been for sure. ahmaud arbery was inside that house several different times. and people in that neighborhood did believe something was being stolen, but they never connected what was being stolen in the neighborhood to
july but was found safe after two weeks. the judge presiding over the federal hate crimes trial for the three men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery ordered the jury sequestered for the course of the trial. the panel was finalized yesterday and consists of eight white, three black and one hispanic juror. the prosecution is expected to call its first witness this morning. so let s go straight to cnn national correspondent ryan young who has been following this story for us. ryan, prosecutors telling jurors that the defendants have a history of using racist terms. yeah, they do. something i want to tell everyone here, you think about the state case, we got to see every single day video from inside the course. we won t going to those updates on a day to day basis. we can t provide what schaaping in is happening in terms of the video like we did for the state case. they were found guilty in the state case.