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filly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:40 pm Are these different defense lawyers than in the State criminal case?

LM K wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:42 pm

filly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:40 pm Are these different defense lawyers than in the State criminal case?

I'll try to find out.

roadscholar wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:00 pm About the shotgun... someone testified it was pump-action, therefore he'd need to reload after every shot?

Mine takes I think five shells, and the pump loads them. Only need to reload after every 5.

A break-down double barrel, yes, you need to hand-load. But pump action? I'z confuzzled.

filly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:40 pm Are these different defense lawyers than in the State criminal case?

LM K wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:12 pm

filly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:40 pm Are these different defense lawyers than in the State criminal case?

All three defendants are using different lawyers in their federal case.

TM = A.J. Balbo
GM = Amy Lee Copeland
WRB = J. Pete Theodocion

Source: NYT

In the federal trial, the three men face hate-crime charges of using force and threats of force to intimidate and interfere with Mr. Arbery’s right to use a public street because of his race.

The defendants have also been charged with one count of attempted kidnapping. In addition, the McMichaels were charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm, and Travis McMichael is also accused of discharging a firearm.

William “Roddie” Bryan had never seen Ahmaud Arbery and didn’t know if a crime had been committed when he left his front porch, hopped in his truck and helped two neighbors chase the 25-year-old through their subdivision, a GBI agent testified Thursday.

But he suspected the Black man “had done something wrong” as Arbery fled past his house with Greg and Travis McMichael in pursuit, he would later tell investigators.

“I cut him off pretty good,” Bryan, now 52, told the police.


“Should we have been chasing him? I don’t know,” Bryan chuckled as he spoke with a Glynn County police officer at the scene that afternoon. He also referred to Arbery as “the Black guy” and a “joker” as Arbery’s body lay in the street nearby, Seacrist testified.

“When I see him come around the the corner right there, it was almost like the Black guy was tired of running,” Bryan said in a recorded interview played for the jury.

Bryan would agree to sit for two lengthy interviews with Seacrist just days before his arrest. He even took the GBI agent on a “drive-thru recreation” of his route through Satilla Shores that afternoon.

just days before his arrest

A woman Travis McMichael supervised during his time in the U.S. Coast Guard broke down on the witness stand Friday as she told the jury he repeatedly insulted her when he discovered she had previously dated a Black man.

Kristie Ronquille, who still serves in the Coast Guard, said she was stationed with McMichael in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in 2011.

McMichael outranked her at the time, but the two had friends in common and saw each other in social settings on several occasions, Ronquille said. The Kentucky native broke down as she told jurors about a time she was insulted by McMichael after turning on an NBA game and recognizing a player she had dated in high school. The player, she said, was Black.

Travis said disparaging things after learning of her dating history, she testified, and began calling her a “(n-word) lover,” she alleged.

“It took me back and I felt disrespected,” said Ronquille.

Asked by assistant U.S. Attorney Tara Lyons why she never reported McMichael, Ronquille said she had only recently finished basic training at the time and referred to herself as “still green.” She also said she was worried because McMichael was her supervisor.

“It was the first time I’d ever heard remarks used like that,” she said, crying.

Ronquille said that McMichael called her that multiple times after learning of her dating history.

Amy Lee Copeland, McMichael’s attorney, said during a previous interview with the FBI, Ronquille told agents she was only “90% sure he called her that.” Copeland was unable to play the audio of that interview in court, however, and did not have a transcript of the conversation to present as evidence before lunch.

LM K wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:12 pm

filly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:40 pm Are these different defense lawyers than in the State criminal case?

All three defendants are using different lawyers in their federal case.

TM = A.J. Balbo
GM = Amy Lee Copeland
WRB = J. Pete Theodocion

Source: NYT

LM K wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:04 pm TM would have loved me ... I dated a black man for 3 years. I then dated an Egyptian Muslim. My Mister is Japanese/Indigenous American.

I'm a proud race-traitor.