man through the neighborhood scream stop or we ll blow your head off or also scream racial epithets. she said the case would be a lot different. you could see the jury lean in during this, and another thing i noticed is one of the defense attorneys nodded off during the instructions to the jury. a lot of people focused on this case believe they will get justice in this, but at the same time they watching and waiting almost two years after the day that or pri was shot and killed. wolf? ripe, thank you. ryan young in brunswick, georgia for us, thank you. let s get more on this closely watched trial. joining us now our legal analyst elliott williams. did prosecutors from what you know prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these defendants were motivated by race when they killed arbery? look, the challenge here is very different from the regular homicide trial where they have already been convicted of murder because here prosecutors had
kidnapping. the mcmichaels each face a weapons charge. conviction could bring steam fines and add on life sentences. we find the defendant guilty. in november during the state trial, all three were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of arbery. only brian is eligible for parole after three years. the murder was caught on camera, leading to outrage across the country. ahmaud was chased down for five minutes. during closing arguments today, the prosecutor said the murder was about racism. going on to say the men hunted him like an animal. they killed ahmaud because ahmaud was black and what we heard over the last two days, these guys were racists. they were killed racially. reporter: the defense disagreed during arguments, acknowledging their clients used racist comments in the past but
we will continue to follow the breaking news out of ukraine with more on those russian troops being ordered into the eastern portion of the country. first though, major events back here in the united states. the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery is now in the hands of the jury. deliberations are set to resume tomorrow morning after more than two hours of deliberations today. the cnn national correspondent ryan young has the details. reporter: just two days from now marks the two-year anniversary of ahmaud arbery s murder. his mother said she hopes to have guilty verdicts in the federal hate crimes trial by then. i think the doj presented the case well. the anniversary date is the 23rd and hopefully we ll have a good verdict by the 23rd. travis mcmichael, his father, and william brian are charged with a hate crime and attempted
denied race was the reason for the killing. the jury heard testimony from more than 20 witnesses. several of whom spoke about racist language used by the defendants including the n word. the defense only called one witness who talked about the georgia neighborhood where the men lived and where arbery was killed. she had never met the mcmichaels or brian. and ryan young joins us now. you were in the courtroom this afternoon. at one point, the family got emotional when the prosecutor was talking about how the defendants treated their son. what happened? reporter: yeah, very emotional. we saw some of the jury members lean forward during this testimony. they were talking about the idea of after the shooting. we spent so much time playing the shooting and the chase. sometimes people forget about what happened in the moments afterwards. at some point, no one went over to administer any help to ahmaud. no one stopped to say, are you okay? of course, he was shot. no one called 911 to get h
23rd, and hopefully we ll have a good verdict by the 23rd. reporter: travis mcmichael his father, gregory mcmichael, and william bryant are charged with interference with right, a hate crime and attempted kidnapping and the mcmichaels also face a weapons charge. convictions in this trial could bring steep fines and add on more life sentences. we the jury find the defendant travis mcmichael guilty. in november during a state trial all three men were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of arbery. only bryant is eligible for parole after 30 years. or pri s murder caught on camera leading to outrage across the country. ahmad was chased down for like five minutes. reporter: government prosecutors said arbery s murder was about racism, going on to say the men hunted him like an animal. arbery s parents agreed saying this on friday. they killed ahmad simply because he was black, and what we heard over the last two days,