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A federal judge has postponed sentencing for the white men convicted of hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery until Aug. 8.

Sentencing is set for Aug. 1 for three white men convicted of federal hate crimes for chasing and killing Black man Ahmaud Arbery.

The Black man who served as foreman of the jury that returned hate crime convictions against the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery says he believes the verdicts show no one is above the law.

A federal jury has found the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery guilty on all counts of interfering with the victim’s civil rights.

This year's anniversary of Arbery's death comes one day after his three convicted killers, who are white, were found guilty of targeting Arbery because of his race in a federal hate crimes trial.

Ahmaud Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, refused to give in to the bromides of a victory speech.

Greg and Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan had pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.

A jury in Brunswick, Ga., found defendants Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes in the 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.

The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found guilty of federal hate crimes.

Prosecutors argued the men were motivated by race, while the defense deny Arbery's race was the reason for their act.

A federal prosecutor began Monday's opening arguments by saying the defendants' history of racist statements explains why they chased Ahmaud Arbery and "shot him and let him die on the streets like an animal.” Defense closing arguments come next.

Closing arguments begin in the hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

A jury in Georgia has adjourned without a verdict in the federal hate crimes trial over the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Prosecutors relied heavily on racist evidence from cell phones and testimony from acquaintances, but the defense called only one witness.

Witness testimony has concluded in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

A police officer testifying at the hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery says he told two of the defendants just days before the shooting that there was evidence the young Black man had done anything worse than trespassing.

Offensive memes, racist songs and slurs against Black people from the cell phones and social media accounts of the three men on trial portray a history of bigotry.

The FBI wasn't able to access Greg McMichael's phone because it was encrypted, the witness said.

An FBI intelligence analyst is going through dozens of text messages and social media posts in which two of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs.

Neighbors of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery testified at the trio's federal hate crime trial about the shock they felt when gunshots rang out in their neighborhood.

A federal prosecutor says the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery had all expressed negative views toward Black people and used racist slurs in the past.

The trial expected to start Monday will focus on whether the White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery viewed him suspiciously because he was Black.

The federal judge presiding over the hate crimes trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery says she plans to seat a jury Monday, and expects attorneys to make their opening statements as well.

Jury selection is off to a fast start in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men already convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

The Justice Department has charged Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping of the 25-year-old.

Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery are heading for a second trial in federal court, where jury selection could be complicated by failed plea bargains in the case.

Travis McMichael on Friday reversed his plan to plead guilty in the federal case days after a judge rejected terms of a plea deal that was met with passionate objections by Ahmaud Arbery's parents.

The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery is withdrawing his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge.

McMichael and his son Travis had agreed to plead guilty in return for serving time in a federal prison instead of a state one in a deal rejected by a judge after Arbery's parents objected to it.

The man who initiated the deadly chased that led to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery says he won't plead guilty to a federal hate crime charge.

The man who initiated the deadly chase that ended in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has reversed course and decided to plead not guilty to a federal hate crime in the 2020 killing of the unarmed Black man, according to a legal filing late Thursday. Greg McMichael's decision came days after a U.S. District Court judge rejected terms of a plea deal that he and his son, Travis McMichael, had negotiated with prosecutors. McMichael's defense attorney said in a legal notice filed jointly with prosecutors that McMichael now plans to stand trial for a second time in Arbery's death.

The judge gave Travis McMichael and his father until Friday to decide if they will move ahead with pleading guilty.

Arbery's parents had denounced the proposed deal for Travis McMichael.

A federal judge on Monday rejected a plea agreement reached by federal prosecutors and one of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot and killed while jogging on south Georgia street.Driving the news: Travis McMichael offered to plead guilty to violating Arbery's civil rights when he chased him through Brunswick's Satilla Shores neighborhood in 2020. But after hearing from Arbery's parents, who opposed the deal, U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Wood

But his parents' lawyer says they're "vehemently against" the deals reached with Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory.

The proposed plea agreements with Travis and Greg McMichael were filed late Sunday by prosecutors for the U.S. Justice Department.

A federal judge has rejected a plea agreement that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery.

Notices of the plea agreements for Travis McMichael and his father, Greg, were filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.

A federal hate crime trial for father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael is scheduled to begin Feb. 7.

Two of Ahmaud Arbery's killers Travis and Gregory McMichael have reached plea agreements with prosecutors in their federal hate crimes case concerning the Black jogger's 2020 murder in Georgia, according to court filings submitted Sunday night.Why it matters: Attorneys for Arbery's family released a statement saying they're "vehemently against" the plea deals ahead of the hate crimes trial that's scheduled for Feb. 7. and that they plan to oppose the agreement in court Monday.Stay on top of the

A federal judge closed his courtroom to the public Friday to hear attorneys debate whether “racially insensitive” text messages should be allowed as evidence in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery. U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheesbro spent more than two hours hearing arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys behind closed doors, as evidence of racist actions or attitudes by the defendants had been ordered sealed from public view. In November, a Georgia state court convicted father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, of murder in Arbery's death.

A Georgia sheriff’s deputy has been suspended and faces being fired over comments posted on social media after a judge sentenced three white men to life imprisonment in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

The three white men sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery will soon face standing trial a second time.

Murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison under Georgia law unless prosecutors seek the death penalty, which they opted against for Arbery’s killing. The judge ordered both McMichaels to serve life without parole. Bryan was granted a chance of parole, but must first serve at least 30 years in prison. For Travis McMichael, who is 35, the possibility for parole could mean hope for release from prison in his 60s, said Robert Rubin, one of his defense attorneys. He argued that Travis McMichael opened fire only after “Mr.

Ahmaud Arbery's family asked a judge to show no lenience Friday in sentencing the three men.

A judge is handing down the sentences in a Glynn County courtroom Friday, about six weeks after a jury found them guilty in a high-profile case that is widely seen as racially motivated.

Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery have been sentenced to life in prison, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man.

Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying conventional wisdom that the risks of a client taking the stand usually outweigh the benefits.

After 2020 became a year of racial reckoning with the public killing of George Floyd and the protests of injustices against Black people, 2021 offered a follow-up year.

A judge in coastal Georgia has set a sentencing date early next year for the three men convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Last week, a jury handed down 23 guilty verdicts against the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia, last year. It will be up to a judge to decide whether their sentences are served with or without the possibility of parole. These cases have become flashpoints in conversations around race, policing and our criminal legal system in America. Listen: Legal experts react to the convictions of the three men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. GuestsYasmin Cader is deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality.

Inside the trial against the three White men accused of killing a Black jogger, the final guilty verdicts, and a mother's pursuit of the truth of what happened to her son.

The men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery are not the only ones facing prison time for the February 2020 murder. Former Georgia District Attorney Jackie […]

Three men were found guilty of murdering the 25-year-old while he was jogging in Georgia in 2020.

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan were found guilty in the death of Ahmaud Arbery Wednesday.

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan were found guilty in the death of Ahmaud Arbery Wednesday.

Were it not for a graphic video and intense pressure from activists, the killers of an unarmed Black man in Georgia may have been acquitted.

Actor Viola Davis tweeted to Ahmaud Arbery's mother, 'Your son mattered. His life mattered. I pray this brings you a tiny shred of peace.'

Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man

The most surprising aspect of the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is not the verdict, but the fact that it happened at all.

The judge in the Ahmaud Arbery case previously asked that there be no outbursts in the courtroom. All three defendants were found guilty of murder.

A Georgia jury has found all three White men guilty of murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in early 2020.

The killing got captured on video and shared around the world.

The jury found Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty after more than 10 hours of deliberations.

The jury found Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty after more than 10 hours of deliberations.

Travis McMichael; his father, Greg; and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan all faced nine criminal counts in Georgia state court, including felony murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated PressBRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after jurors deliberated for about 10 hours. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own pickup and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery. The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a fleeing burglar when they armed themselves and jumped in a pickup truck to chase him. Travis McMichael testified that he shot Arbery in self-defense, saying the running man turned and attacked with his fists while running past the idling truck where Travis McMichael stood with his shotgun.

It took the jury less than two days to find three white men guilty of chasing down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in Brunswick, Ga.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan.

The men face charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony.

Before the jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery retired to the jury room to begin their deliberations, the judge read them specific instructions on the law that’s applicable to this case.

The jury begins deliberating in the case of three white men accused of hunting down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.

The case will go to the jury after prosecutors get the last word. Three white men are accused of murdering Arbery as he jogged through their neighborhood in Glynn County, Ga.

Jurors in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery deliberated for about six hours without reaching a verdict.

Federal authorities have charged three men with hate crimes, alleging that they chased and killed Arbery because he was Black.

Arbery's killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked online two months later. A neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, joined the chase and recorded the video of Travis McMichael opening fire as Arbery threw punches and grabbed for his shotgun. They met in front of the truck, which blocked the camera's view, when Travis McMichael fired the first of three shotgun blasts. Then Travis McMichael had his own "horrifying experience," Sheffield said, "when he encountered Arbery in the yard at night 12 days before the shooting. She said it was Travis McMichael who attacked Arbery — first with his truck, then by pointing a shotgun at him as Arbery ran toward him.

Months before Ahmaud Arbery was killed, shooter Travis McMichael posted a simple, chilling response to a Facebook post about a suspected car burglary on his Georgia neighborhood: “Arm up.”.

The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery took the witness stand to tell jurors he pulled the trigger fearing for his own life.

A defense attorney in the murder trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death is likening a large courthouse rally supporting the slain Black man's family to a “public lynching” of the white defendants.

Jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery must decide whether one or all of them is guilty of murder.

Hundreds of pastors are rallying at the Georgia courthouse where three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Defendant Travis McMichael is testifying Thursday for a second day in the trial of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

Defense attorneys for the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery rested Thursday after calling a total of seven witnesses.

Defendant Travis McMichael is giving a testimony Wednesday in the trial of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery has testified at his murder trial that the 25-year-old Black man forced him to make a split-second “life or death” decision by attacking him and grabbing his shotgun.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery as the Black man ran in their neighborhood.

A judge is denying requests to declare a mistrial in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery.

Here are this morning's top stories.

Georgia's citizen's arrest and self-defense laws are key to the defense strategy in the trial of the three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

A police officer says he would have given Ahmaud Arbery a warning for trespassing inside the unfinished home from which the young Black man was seen running before he was chased and fatally shot.

An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he doesn't want “any more Black pastors” in the courtroom.

Jurors in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death are watching security camera videos from a home under construction that the 25-year-old Black man was seen running from before he was fatally shot.

The man who initiated the chase that ended in Ahmaud Arbery's death rapidly changed his story to police on why he suspected Arbery was a criminal.

Jurors in a Georgia courtroom have been shown graphic crime scene photos of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery.

The long-standing practice of allowing attorneys to dismiss prospective jurors without giving a reason has come under intense criticism.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are presenting dueling portraits of Ahmaud Arbery to jurors.

The trial hasn't even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery.

The judge in the trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery has declined to override decisions in jury selection that left just one Black juror on the final panel of 12.

Some people questioned during jury selection about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have said he was “racially profiled” by the white men who chased and shot him.

Attorneys are slowly questioning potential jurors in Georgia who may ultimately decide the fate of three white men charged with killing a Black man, Ahmaud Arbery.