do you need a moment. she broke down. she started crying. maybe not the best strategy on your part. it was a powerful moment for her because it allowed her to really retell the story in an emotional way and bring the jurors into her story. julie was on the stand for three days. then the jury had to decide. i was juror number three in julie harper s trial. he said that he knew early on in the deliberations it wasn t going to be easy or quick. within 15 minutes we had taken a vote and it showed we were way apart and would argue each points to where there was nothing conclusive.
but she said that it wasn t murder. why? jason harper, so beloved by friends and colleagues was an angry, abusive husband. did you videotape her is her secret recording of jason losing it over money. i don t want to enable that. it is horrible. then this. get a carpool. figure it out. i can t help if you are too dumb to do it or lazy. at least i have more words in my vocabulary than you do. seems like the that is right. right now that is darn right. because that is what you are. it got worse and physical.
somebody said they heard it on a scanner. so i called that sunday afternoon. it got a little brief in the paper. i couldn t get anything from the police that day. i called the coroner and got his name, ahmaud arbery. and this was a burglary apparently, but he s in the middle of the street. why is a young man shot in the middle of the street. burglaries, typically don t take place in the middle of the afternoon, especially on a sunday when everybody is at home. the biggest thing is why is this young man shot dead in the middle of the street. it just raised a lot of red flags. absolutely. yeah. so you had to keep following up. then the video eventually comes out, the video we were just sharing, shared by one of the defendants to try to show it wasn t murder. this video comes out and then it becomes a national story and you continue to follow it through the verdict.
are you a christian author with a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! good evening. answered prayer. that s how the mother of ahmaud arbery described today s verdict for the three men found guilty of murdering her son. arbery was gunned down last year while jogging through a suburban georgia neighborhood. the verdict was huge, she said. a vindication for her and her family that was anything but inevitable. i m john berman, in for anderson. obstacles included the original prosecutors, one of whom is now under indictment for her alleged actions. and another who once told police that the actions of the father and son convicted today of murder were, quote, perfectly legal. no one was charged for the murder for more than two months, not until video of that deadly
guilty was a word that many feared they might not ever hear in this case. count one, malice murder. we, the jury, find the defendant travis mcmichael guilty. oh! i m going to ask whoever just made an outburst be removed from the court, please. reporter: loved ones for ahmaud arbery overcome with emotion this afternoon as all three defendants were found guilty of murder by a jury of nine white women, two white men, and one black man. the judge read through all nine counts for each defendant. guilty. reporter: travis mcmichael, the man who shot and killed arbery, claiming it was self-defense, was found guilty on all nine counts. his father, gregory mcmichael, was found not guilty on one charge but guilty on the other eight. guilty. reporter: william roddie bryan jr., the man who took the video of the shooting, was found guilty on six counts. guilty. reporter: people outside the courthouse rejoiced.