A federal judge on Monday rejected the terms of a proposed plea agreement in the federal hate crime case against Travis McMichael, one of the three men convicted in a separate state case of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, the Black jogger who McMichael fatally shot outside Brunswick two years ago.
Arbery s parents came out against the plea deal, which they called an unauthorized backroom deal that is a huge accommodation to the men who hunted down and murdered their son.
A judge has rejected a plea deals for Travis McMichael - and his father Gregory McMichael - on federal hate crime charges after he admitted chasing down Ahmaud Arbery because he was black.
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, who was murdered in a Georgia suburb in 2020, says she is opposing a plea deal reached by two of the men convicted in the case, Travis McMichael and his father G