consequences. all mr. arbery was doing was jogging when three white guys in pickup trucks started chasing him. they never told mr. arbery why they were trying to stop him that day. they never told the police anything about a citizen s arrest. the prosecutors want the jurors to see the citizen s arrest defense as an after the fact justification by defendants who are trying to beat a murder case. and melissa, let s talk about the defense argument just now. how compelling was that in counterpoint? well, i think the defense is trying to counter the prosecution s statement that a citizen s arrest really needs an underlying felony, and there was none here. and the defense forcefully countered that by suggesting that simply by entering that unoccupied home, ahmaud arbery was committing burglary, which does not require anyone to actually take anything from the premise under georgia law.
officer rash testified neighbors help neighbors and neighbors help the police. there are really only two questions for you to answer to reach your verdict in the charges that the state has brought against greg mcmichael. did greg mcmichael have reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion to believe that ahmaud arbery had committed a burglary and did he have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that ahmaud arbery was escaping or attempting to
i m looking up holmes. i m just going to take up residence right here, and i m going to watch to see what happens next because maybe this guy will come back, and we can stop him or maybe he ll just keep running that way. maybe he ll keep running that way, and i can tell the police i m pretty sure he s not this way. i m pretty sure he s not over here. he s not there. he s headed that way. what he doesn t know is that mr. arbery is turning around up on the other side of the dog leg, and this is where our video picks up with roddie bryan. by now it should be clear, travis doesn t even know where roddie bryan is. to say that roddie bryan s turn up there and to follow him back, travis has no idea what s happening behind the blind side of that curve, and still doesn t know who this truck is and why this gentleman is interacting
courtroom. even in science, errors can happen. and without dill get investigation and inquiry, people can be convicted on the slightest errors. stripped of their freedom for another s inattention or mistakes. imagine, if dr. donahue, with all that experience, who made the decision, the conclusion, that the muzzle to target range, the end of travis shotgun to the chest of ahmaud arbery was four feet away based on a photograph he compared in a book without having watched the video and more egregiously, without even having looked at the clothes that covered ahmaud arbery s body. imagine if that initial
seeking to disarm travis mcmichael. so, who has to prove what? we begin as we always begin in a courtroom, with innocence and we stay there unless and until the state proves to you that this was not a citizens arrest and that travis was not justified in defending himself against ahmaud arbery s attack and they have to convince you of that, remove your belief in that citizens arrest or justification to such a degree, that you have got left nothing, nothing in your minds to doubt it. that sounds like an enormous burden. why? because they have to make you sure of it.