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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery:  The Sentencing 
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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery:  The Sentencing 

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw January 7, 2022

In the Superior Court of Glynn County, Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery took the podium to tell her story of what life has been like for her family without her son.  Embarking on the unimaginable act of reading a victim impact statement, Cooper-Jones read a message to her son filled with emotion, “This verdict doesn’t bring you back, but it does help bring closure to this very difficult chapter of my life,” she said.

Guilty Verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery Case
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Guilty Verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery Case

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw, Contributing WriterNovember 24, 2021

After more than 11 hours of deliberation and eight days of testimony, a nearly all-white jury in the seaside town of Brunswick, Ga., have brought back guilty verdicts for all three men charged in the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.  Travis McMichael, 35; Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, face sentences of up to life in prison.  Glynn County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley will decide if those convictions come with or without the possibility of parole.  Judge Walmsley did not immediately schedule a sentencing date.

Georgia prosecutor wants to bring shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery to grand jury: ‘This is murder’
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Georgia prosecutor wants to bring shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery to grand jury: ‘This is murder’

Russ Bynum The Associated PressMay 7, 2020

A Georgia prosecutor said Tuesday that he wants a grand jury to decide if criminal charges are warranted in the death of a man shot after a pursuit by armed men who later told police they suspected him of being a burglar. 

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed Feb. 23 in a neighborhood outside the coastal port city of Brunswick. No one has been arrested or charged in the case, prompting an outcry from the local NAACP and others. Arbery was black and the men who chased him are white.