‘No good deed goes unpunished,’ accused Ahmaud Arbery killer said in jail phone call defense is trying to exclude from trial Nelson Oliveira
Attorneys for the three Georgia men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery want all recordings of phone calls the suspects had in jail excluded from the upcoming trial, one of multiple requests under consideration at a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
In one of the phone calls cited in court, ex-cop Gregory McMichael was heard telling his brother that “no good deed goes unpunished,” an apparent reference to their arrest over Arbery’s death last year. The exact context of that conversation was not clear, but the suspect’s attorney told the judge that prosecutors could use such phone calls to mislead the jury, telling them, for instance, that the “good deed” was the killing of Arbery.
Judge will review motions made during Arbery case hearing FILE - This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William Roddie Bryan Jr. The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges against the three men Wednesday, April 28,2021, in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. (Source: Glynn County Detention Center via AP) By WTOC Staff and Amanda Aguilar | May 13, 2021 at 11:36 AM EDT - Updated May 13 at 6:57 PM
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Day two of a motion hearing in the Ahmaud Arbery case ended Thursday.
Judge wants to review Ahmaud Arbery s mental health records
Men charged in killing of Ahmaud Arbery plead not guilty to hate crime charges UP NEXT A Georgia judge on Thursday said he wants to review Ahmaud Arbery s mental health records in private to determine if he will allow them to be used at the trial of three white defendants accused of tracking down the 25-year-old Black man and shooting him to death. Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy R. Walmsley, who was appointed to preside over the the Glynn County, Georgia, case, ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit the records to him and prepare him written briefs within 20 to 30 days on why they are or are not relevant in the high-profile murder case.
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Men charged in killing of Ahmaud Arbery plead not guilty to hate crime charges
The three were indicted on hate crime charges in April by a federal grand jury.Lewis M. Levine/AP
A Georgia judge on Thursday said he wants to review Ahmaud Arbery s mental health records in private to determine if he will allow them to be used at the trial of three white defendants accused of tracking down the 25-year-old Black man and shooting him to death.
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In this image from video, Gregory McMichael, second from right, is led by security officers from the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., Wednesday, May 12, 2021. A Georgia judge will continue hearing legal motions Thursday in the murder case of three men facing a fall trial in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was chased and shot after being spotted running in the defendants neighborhood. (AP Photo/Lewis M. Levine) May 13, 2021 - 1:23 PM
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) â A judge said Thursday he will review under seal mental health records of Ahmaud Arbery to decide whether they can be used by defense attorneys to support their case that the slaying of the 25-year-old Black man was an act of self-defense.