A Georgia judge denied a motion for a mistrial on Friday in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case from a defense lawyer who claimed that Black pastors outside the courthouse were a 'woke left mob' that influenced the jury in the trial of three white men.
Judge Timothy Walmsley gestures during the trial of William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, at Glynn County Superior Court in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. November 19, 2021.
Several nationally known Black clergy and civil rights leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King III have sat with Arbery's family in the courtroom at various times.Gough's client, William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, along with Greg McMichael, 65, a former policeman, and his son Travis McMichael, 35, are charged with the 25-year-old Black man's murder. Prosecutors say they chased and shot Arbery to death as he took a Sunday afternoon jog on Feb.
Gough showed the court photographs of the large gathering on Thursday and said it was an unfair influence or perhaps intimidated the jury. "This is a trial that's been infected by mob violence of a woke left mob," he said.
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