'I have my concerns about getting a guilty verdict,' Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones said in an interview Wednesday night with ABC News' byronpitts.
Former homicide prosecutor Bernarda Villalona discusses the “intentional discrimination” in jury selection and how the jury composition could affect the possible outcome of the trial.The mother of Ahmaud Arbery said it is"very, very discouraging" that the jury impaneled in the trial of the Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing her son is nearly all white.
Asked what worries her most about that jury, Cooper-Jones said,"that the jurors that we picked won't see things the way that I see things and we will get a very different verdict." But Walmsley rejected a motion from prosecutor Linda Dunikoski to reinstate the dismissed Black jurors to the pool of qualified candidates while at the same time recognizing that one of the challenges of the trial"is the racial overtones in this case."
Four alternate jurors will also be seated for the trial from the remaining all-white candidates left in the pool. The men have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, aggravated assault and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. Arbery continued running past the McMichaels' home, where Gregory McMichael spotted him and believed he matched the description of a neighborhood burglary suspect, according to his lawyer.Travis McMichael attends the jury selection in his trial, together with Gregory McMichael and their neighbor, William"Roddie" Bryan, charged with the February 2020 death of Ahmaud Arbery, at the Gwynn County Superior Court, in Brunswick, Georgia, Oct. 27, 2021.
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