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The Georgia county court trying the alleged murderers of Ahmaud Arbery has mistakenly exposed potential jurors to suppressed evidence, including his mental health history, which a judge banned from the trial.
Jury candidates who visit the Glynn County Superior Court website seeking information about what time and what day they need to show up can viewin just a couple clicksall the motions filed so far in the murder trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William Roddie Bryan.
Those documents include specifics about Arberys mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.
The motions also include evidence that prosecutors would like to use against the McMichaels, including a Confederate flag vanity plate on Travis truck and how often the father and son had used their licensed firearms. The judge has yet to make a ruling on the admissibility of that evidence.
If a jury candidate were to read that information, it would make them ineligible to sit on the jury that will determine the McMichaels and Bryans fates. And if that person were to be chosen for the jury, it could be grounds for a mistrial, although thats unlikely, legal experts told VICE News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qxgw/ahmaud-arbery-mental-health-history-given-jury-candidates
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)underpants
(182,736 posts)Ilsa
(61,692 posts)even though there are plenty of fuckups, including not charging them after it happened because the district attorney argued that there was not sufficient probable cause to arrest Mr. Arberys pursuers.
LoisB
(7,197 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Beatlelvr
(618 posts)Those cretins stalked him, deliberately cornered him and killed him. Why? Because they think he was on some property illegally? Yeah, that deserves a death sentence! And they filmed it! Put these fuckers away, please!
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)I agree. Throw them in jail.
And also find out who placed the suppressed evidence for potential jurors to find.
Throw them in jail too.
CBHagman
(16,984 posts)...when law enforcement arrived. The dehumanizing of Ahmaud Arbery had already begun.
On edit: I mean that in the footage I saw, I detected no effort to determine whether Ahmaud Arbery was even still alive, let alone an attempt to save him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/12/17/ahmaud-arbery-body-camera-video/
no_hypocrisy
(46,067 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)Who believes this was an accident?
sarisataka
(18,570 posts)NewDayOranges
(692 posts)obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)This "oops, did I do that????" isn't going to work.
Faux pas
(14,657 posts)Sounds very suspicious to me. Oops doesn't fix it.
csziggy
(34,135 posts)From the link in the OP:
We are aware of that issue, and the decision about that will be made by the judge, Glynn County Superior Court Clerk Ronald Adams told VICE News Tuesday morning.
The trial motions are available on a menu on the left side of the courts website. Clicking one of the three links labeled State Of Georgia vs Gregory McMichael, State Of Georgia vs Travis McMichael, or State Of Georgia vs William Roddie Bryan, directs visitors to a page containing every filing and ruling related to the case since May 11, 2020, when warrants for the McMichaels arrests were filed.
I wonder if this is routine for this Georgia county - leaving suppressed evidence movements accessible to potential jurors. If so, every defense attorney for every case that was lost, that could have been influenced by jurors seeing this information, should appeal to overturn convictions in that county!
Jilly_in_VA
(9,962 posts)Move the case. Call new jurors.