crime verdict ever until, as wanda cooper jones said, 22, to 2022. she called it super tuesday because it was so significant, you finally have a hate crime conviction that we pray will set a new precedent to have more of these cases brought, where we know that race is a motivating factor. ben, i think a lot of people followed the first trial. we saw a lot of the footage of it. we saw a lot of the coverage of it. but we did not know what really was transpiring behind closed wall of the court today. and i read this accounting of what happened inside the courtroom as the verdict was read. this is from the washington post. the jury foreman, a black man from dublin, georgia, was visibly crying as u.s. district judge lisa got b would ask each juror to affirm their votes in
pres president biden declaring movement into eastern ukraine is but the beginning of an invasion, saying he believes russia is poised to go much further and launch a massive military attack against the country. much more on that coming up. stand by. there s other major news we are following. a jury in brunswick, georgia found three men that called ahmaud arbery guilty of federal hate crimes following their murder convictions in state court. tonight, all three face possible additional life sentences. cnn national correspondent ryan young joins us from outside the courthouse in brunswick. so give us the latest, ryan. reporter: yeah, wolf. i was actually in the courtroom for the hearing. you could see the emotion all over the courtroom. i was sitting behind the family. as soon as that verdict was read, you could feel the emotion. they were shaking back and forth. i looked up at the jury, you could see pure emotion in their faces as well, the jury foreman
was the cigar, apparently almost never seen without a scar clamped between his teeth, so that was his mafia handle, car mine i galante, the cigar. he was implicated in multiple murders and drug trafficking on an enormous scale. one of his drug related trials and in a mistrial after a witness reported getting threatening phone calls and the jury foreman somehow ended up, quote unquote, falling down a long flight of stairs and breaking his back. in 1979, carmine, the cigar, galante was eating at a place called joe and mary s italian restaurant in brooklyn, eating a meal with two other guys from the same crime family, and the man ultimately prosecuted for
reporter: prosecutor loughery was still certain he put the right defendant on trial twice. it doesn t mean he didn t kill his mother. it just means that a jury said he didn t. reporter: the jury foreman said the defense s strategy to put kevin on the stand worked. i just don t believe that the evidence points to kevin. reporter: not only was there reasonable doubt, this juror believed kevin s testimony over bill s, in part because kevin looked directly at him. did that make a difference to you, making eye contact, acknowledging your presence? yeah. because the eyes tell something. bill didn t look at us once. reporter: the next day, the judge released kevin. good luck, mr. kyne. thank you, your honor. please don t come back. i won t. good. reporter: outside, kevin met his grandmother and then the local media. i m innocent. there s got to be a guilty party. where s justice for your mother in all this? i m hoping, coming. so that way, justice is served f
david, good to see you, sir. good to see you. we re tracking another breaking news story. a jury has delivered a guilty verdict in the trial of actor jussie smollett. the star charged with staging and fraudulently creating what was deemed as an anti-gay racist hate crime against him allegedly, and he was charged with lying to the police about it. nbc s meagan fitzgerald has been covering this, is live in chicago outside the courthouse. meagan. reporter: yeah, just within the last couple of minutes here, the jury foreman reading off those six counts that jussie smollett has been facing. this jury found that he was guilty on five counts. not guilty on six counts. so i want to break this down for you. the first five counts are connected to that incident in january of 2019. a statement that jussie smollett made to police officers. so jurors found that he lied to police officers on those five