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Bryan’s attorney asked for a mistrial, which the judge rejected. On cross-examination, prosecutor Larissa Ollivierre asked Cofer: “Do you believe that stealing is deserving of the death penalty?”ĭefense attorneys objected loudly and the judge had the jury leave the courtroom. “I don’t think so, no,” Donoghue replied.Ī prosecutor’s pointed question to a minor witness prompted outrage from defense attorneys and a rebuke from the judge.ĭefense attorneys called Lindy Cofer to the witness stand Thursday to ask her about neighbors discussing crime on a Facebook page for residents of Satilla Shores, the subdivision where the defendants lived and Arbery was killed. “Is there anything law enforcement or EMS could have done to save his life at the scene?” prosecutor Dunikoski asked. The second severed an artery near his left armpit and fractured his arm. The first tore open his wrist and punched a gaping hole in his chest, unleashing severe bleeding. Edmund Donoghue of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said two of the three shotgun blasts fired struck Arbery. Jurors saw graphic, close-up photos of Arbery’s shotgun wounds as themedical examiner who performed the autopsy testified that the injuries were so grievous no one could have saved him.ĭr. “We are going to keep coming until we get justice.” Because no matter where you are, God is there,” Sharpton told the crowd outside the courthouse. The judge at one point called his argument “reprehensible.” He said their presence could influence the jury.
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Jesse Jackson led a group of mostly Black ministers Thursday in a rally outside the Glynn County courthouse as trial testimony continued inside.ĭressed in dark suits and white collars, the clergymen flocked to the courthouse after defense attorney Kevin Goughobjected to Sharpton and other prominent civil rights figures sitting with Arbery’s parents in the courtroom. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and the Rev. “And you pulled out a shotgun and pointed it at him.”Ī week after a defense attorney said he didn’t want to see “any more Black pastors” in the courtroom, hundreds of them turned out on the courthouse steps. “All he’s done is run away from you,” Dunikoski said. McMichael also acknowledged to Dunikoski that Arbery never threatened him or showed a weapon during the five-minute pursuit that ended in the shooting. He said he had been scared and nervous after “the most traumatic event of my life.” Questioned on cross-examination by prosecutor Linda Dunikoski, McMichael admitted his testimony didn’t always match up with what he told police the day of the shooting on Feb. “That if he would have gotten the shotgun from me, then this was a life or death situation, and I’m going to have to stop him from doing this so I shot.” “It was obvious that he was attacking me,” he testified. He choked up on the witness stand as he described making a split-second decision to pull the trigger as Arbery punched him and grabbed for his shotgun. Travis McMichael gave his account of Arbery’s death and the pursuit that led up to it for the first time. The star defense witness turned out to be the shooter himself. Here are some key moments from the trial’s second week. Bryan’s cellphone video of the shooting - leaked online two months after Arbery’s death - dramatically raised the killing’s profile, making it part of a larger national outcry over racial injustice. Both sides rested after 10 days of trial testimony.Įach of the defendants is charged with murder and other crimesin the death of Arbery, who was fatally shot last year after he was spotted running in their neighborhood outside the port city of Brunswick. The trial of father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan is nearing an end, with closing arguments by prosecutors and defense attorneys scheduled for Monday. Meanwhile, hundreds of Black pastors rallied outside the Glynn County courthouse in coastal Georgia to show support for the slain 25-year-old Black man’s family, compelled by a defense attorney’s failed efforts to get prominent civil rights figures barred from the court. But he also said Arbery didn’t threaten him during the five-minute chase before the shooting. (AP) - The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery took the witness stand to tell jurors he pulled the trigger fearing for his own life.