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Predicated on a firearm or a motor vehicle. a motor vehicle is a weapon that you can use to scare someone. false imprisonment in that they restrained ahmaud arberys movement without privilege. that "without privilege" is the magic words, they concluded there was no citizens arrest here. >> there will be different sentencing for each of them. >> are you surprised as to the outcome of this? there was a lot made about the jury, the judge even said it appears that there was discrimination in how the...

Military guy, upstanding citizen of the community. someone who was looking out for crime in the community. and tried to make this black guy ahmaud arbery the big boogie man, and this jury saw through that, mike. >> mike: andy, a powerful piece of this case was video. what was the impact of video on this jury? >> you know what we are seeing, mike? in these cases where video really does tell you what happened, we saw this in the rittenhouse case. we saw it in this case. what these trials end up co...

Case they must have concluded the agg assault was not something william bryan did. but when they got to the aggravated assault with a car, and thats scaring the heck out of somebody with a giant vehicle, that can be aggravated assault. and if that can be aggravated assault and if a death results, then you can have felony murder. so the jury did conclude that william roddie bryan was committing an aggravated assault. i thought that was a likely outcome, that they would either conclude that it wou...

Travis mcmichael guilty. count nine, criminal attempt to commit a felony, we, the jury, find the defendant travis mcmichael dlt. dated this 24th day of november 2021, signed by the foreperson. have a seat. as to gregory mcmichael in the superior court of glen county state of georgia versus greg mcmichael case number 2000433, jury verdict form count one malice murder we, the jury, find the defendant greg michael not guilty. count two felony murder, we, the jury, find the defendant guilty. count t...

After he was shot. was it a mistake not to bring race into this in a bigger way from the prosecution or was there -- was she working under a different strategy? >> well, the only strategy that i can think she was working under, which is an important strategy is her audience is a jury of 12 people. whatever we may feel outside of that group is not relevant to what the prosecutions argument was. she is tailoring her comments to that group of 12 people who are now sitting and possibly have a verdic...

Here. the mother of ahmaud arbery. it is quiet and tense. any words have been kept to a whisper. the room is jam packed. people are squeezing in. folks are switching places and nervously clasping their hands together. the family have been waiting for this for so long. we talked about this as a 13-day trial. some of these jurors were part of this jury selection a month ago. this has been a long process for so many people. i think a lot of people will be eager to get on with this, katy. >> we have...

Were these your verdicts then, and are these your verdicts now? >> yes, your honor. >> juror number 10, you have heard the verdicts read. were these your verdicts then, and are these your verdicts now? >> yes, your honor. >> juror number 11, you have heard the verdicts read. were these your verdicts then, and are these your verdicts now? >> yes, your honor. >> juror number 12, you have heard the verdicts read. were these your verdicts then, and are these your verdicts now? >> yes, your honor. >>...

Evidence so compelling, and the federal interest in the case not fully vindicated because the state case was a murder case. the federal case will be predicated on hate crimes, on a civil rights violation. and so, completely appropriate here for the federal government to proceed even though they already have a conviction in state court. whatever happens in the federal system, these men are going to jail, very likely, for the rest of their lives. >> so what happens if they are found guilty federal...

Juries. tell us what we should know looking in from the outside. >> i think what is important, very important to note is that the citizens arrest law is something thats not -- was not well known at the time of ahmaud arberys killing. and, so, that citizens arrest law is being tried in this case. i think it is very interesting that the jury asked to look at the videos and asked to listen to the 911 call as well as the audio. all of those three pieces of evidence, if you will, point to the citizen...

On this high profile case? >> well, you know, i accept jury verdicts. we are a nation of laws and they have to be accepted. as someone who followed this a little bit and watched the video. the video steamed match the verdict. i was not in the courtroom. the jury heard the facts and they rendered a vempleted the matter is now in the past. i do hope that we are as a nation try to heal from this and understand as much as there were two decisions this week, they were both jury verdicts, they both li...