Prosecutors asked the U.S. District Court of Brunswick, Georgia, to approve plea agreements for two of the men convicted of murdering Arbery.
But prosecutors filed notice in the U.S. District Court of Brunswick, Georgia, on Sunday asking a judge to approve plea agreements for the McMichaels. Specific details about the deal were not provided in the court filings and they do not name Bryan.
Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones reacts as Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentences Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William"Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, on January 7, 2022 in Brunswick, Georgia.The statement, reported by WTLV, said the proposed deal would allow the McMichaels to enter federal custody and serve the first 30 years of their sentence in"a preferred federal prison.
Cooper-Jones was also quoted in the statement, saying:"The DOJ has gone behind my back to offer the men who murdered my son a deal to make their time in prison easier for them to serve. In court filings for the McMichaels, prosecutors asked the court to schedule proceedings and"accept the defendant's plea as set forth in the proposed agreement."Arbery, 25, was fatally shot on February 23, 2020, after the McMichaels armed themselves and pursued him in a pickup truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood outside Brunswick, Georgia.
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