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mcmichael guilty. reporter: he was found guilty on eight counts and not guilty on one count of malice murder. william bryan, the last defendant to hear his fate, he filmed the disturbing video showing arbery s final moments from his pickup truck. count three, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant william r. bryan guilty. reporter: bryan was found guilty of six of the nine counts against him, but not guilty on malice murder. one felony murder charge, an aggravated assault with a firearm, as the judge read the convictions, arbery s mother wanda cooper-jones listened from the public gallery in tears. outside the courthouse, supporters of the arbery s family emotional about the decision. today justice was served. reporter: the three defendants say they chased arbery down because they were trying to make a citizen s arrest, claiming they believed arbery was behind a series of burglaries in the neighborhood after seeing a video of him
more of how important it is for members of our community to come down and be part of this process and serve as jurors in this community. so thank you for that service. and i ll come address you all in just a moment. you are excused. all rise for the jury. all right. a lot to chew over on that. the big headline there, though, is that all three men were found guilty of felony murder. there was some differences in some of the counts there, but for travis mcmichael, the man who pulled the trigger, he was guilty on all nine counts, including malice murder. his father, greg mcmichael was not guilty on malice murder but then guilty on all of the other eight counts. william bryan was found not guilty on three counts and guilty on the others. hold on. i want to hear the judge one
with malice. they may have been concluding that, hey, because only one person fired the gun, that s the person we re going to get with malice murder and everybody else they committed felonies and the resulting conduct was that somebody died. that s about all you need for felony murder. break down what happened with william bryan. he was found not guilty on three of the counts. yeah. i m still playing catchup. he was the only one that had a path to acquittal because he never possessed a gun and there was evidence he didn t know until the last second that the other guys had guns. but from my count here and i think we will wait for the official tallies it makes sense in that if they weren t going to find father mcmichael guilty on the malice murder, then they probably weren t going to find bryan guilty of the malice murder. then you get to the count two and that was aggravated assault with a firearm. no surprise there because the jury likely concluded that he had no firearm. they coul
georgia, cr 20000433, jury verdict form. count one, malice murder, we, the jury, find the defendant william r. bryan not guilty. count two, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant william r. bryan not guilty. count three, felony murder, we, the jury, find the defendant william r. bryan guilty. count four, felony murder, we, the jury, find the defendant william r. bryan guilty. count five, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant william r. bryan guilty. count six, aggravated assault, we, the jury, find the defendant william r. bryan not guilty. count seven, aggravated assault, we, the jury, find the defendant william r. bryan guilty. count eight, false imprisonment, we, the jury, find the defendant