BREAKING: The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery is withdrawing his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge. Travis McMichael elected to stand trial for a second time in Arbery’s 2020 killing.
The reversal came days after a judge rejected terms of a plea deal between defense attorneys and prosecutors that was met with stiff objections by Arbery’s parents. His father, Greg McMichael, also backed down from a planned guilty plea. Arbery was killed with a shotgun in February 2020 after a chase through a Georgia neighborhood. Jury selection will begin Monday in the hate crimes case against the McMichaels and a neighbor.BRUNSWICK, Ga.
Travis McMichael was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning to announce his decision after being warned by the judge that she would not guarantee their sentence if they chose to plead guilty. The McMichaels armed themselves and chased Arbery in a pickup truck after spotting the 25-year-old man running past their home just outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck and recordedto a hate crime charge after prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to propose a 30-year sentence that would include a request to transfer the McMichaels from Georgia’s state prison system to federal custody.
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