the city, county, and state couldn't discover a way to charge anyone for lying on a warrant application; but you know, a few bad apples.
Aug. 8, 2022, 10:06 AM CDT By Daniella Silva The father and son convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were both sentenced to life in prison Monday on federal hate crime charges. A judge also required that Travis McMichael, 36, and Greg McMichael, 66, serve their sentences in state prison, not federal prison as had been requested by their attorneys. Before handing down the sentence to Travis McMichael, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood said the younger McMichael had received a fair trial, “the kind of trial that Ahmaud Arbery did not receive before he was shot and killed.” “You killed a man on Feb. 23, 2020. The events depicted in the video, they are seared in the annals of this court and no doubt in your mind forever,” she said. Amy Lee Copeland, Travis McMichael’s attorney, had asked the judge to allow her client to serve his sentence in federal prison, saying he had received “hundreds of threats” and that he would probably be killed in state custody. A.J. Balbo, an attorney for Greg McMichael, told the judge he was medically "not fit" to serve his sentence in state prison. Both Copeland and Balbo also said they were concerned about an investigation by the Department of Justice into inmate violence in the Georgia state prison system. The prosecution and members of Arbery’s family asked that the McMichaels serve their sentences in state prison. A third man involved in the attack, William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, also is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. Marcus Arbery, Ahmaud Arbery’s father, said ahead of the sentencing that “these three devils have broken my heart into pieces that cannot be found or repaired” and asked the court to give the stiffest sentence possible. “You killed him because he was a Black man and you hate Black people,” he said. Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, said Travis McMichael “took my baby son.”