Joyette M. Holmes was appointed as the fourth prosecutor in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man gunned down in February by two white men while on a jog in Georgia.
On Monday, Cobb County District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes, a black woman, was appointed as the fourth prosecutor in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man gunned down in February by two white men while on a jog in Brunswick, Ga.
Holmes takes over from the most recent prosecutor, Tom Durden, who requested that the case go to someone else, as it had grown too big for his office amid national scrutiny. The two previous prosecutors recused themselves from the case, citing professional relationships with the older McMichael, who was a former county police officer.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who tapped Holmes, also a Republican, as district attorney for Cobb County, said, “She really is the right person for the job.” Story continuesArbery family attorney S. Lee Merritt also praised Holmes’s appointment as “another huge win for justice,” as he had pushed for Durden to be taken off the case because of his inaction.
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