|May 12, 2021 at 12:05 PM EDT - Updated May 13 at 10:19 AM
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The three men charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery made another appearance in court Wednesday in Glynn County.
Wednesday’s pre-trial motion hearing was for the state-level charges against the suspects. Lawyers made several motions about what evidence they believe should be presented at the trial.
The defendants - Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan - face murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment charges. Arbery was killed on Feb. 23, 2020. Three months after Arbery’s death, an attorney leaked the graphic video of Arbery’s killing. The video went viral and drew national attention.
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(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) Three white Georgia men already facing state murder charges for allegedly tracking down and fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as the 25-year-old Black man jogged through their neighborhood in 2020 all pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal hate crime charges.
Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and their neighbor William Roddie Bryan were arraigned in federal court in Brunswick, Georgia.
The men appeared at the hearing without defense lawyers, and each asked to be represented by a public defender. They are being held in custody without bond.
During the Tuesday hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheesbro read the federal complaint against the three men, which alleges they “did willfully, by force and threat of force, injure, intimidate and interfere with Ahmaud Arbery, an African American man, because of his race and color.”
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The three men accused of murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal hate crime charges.
The Department of Justice in late April charged father and son defendants Gregory McMichael, 65, and Travis McMichael, 35, along with their neighbor and accused accomplice William Roddie Bryan, 51, of targeting and threatening Arbery because of his race.
The men, who are white, allegedly chased and fatally shot Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, after they spotted him running in their Georgia neighborhood. Federal prosecutors said the McMichaels got into a truck and went after Arbery. Bryan then joined the chase and videotaped the incident.