3 men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery appear in federal court for pretrial hearing
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The federal trial is set to begin Feb. 7, 2022.
The three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery appeared in federal court on Monday for a pretrial hearing. They will be tried on federal charges of hate crimes and attempted kidnapping early next year.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed while jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood of Brunswick, Georgia, in February 2020.
The men, Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie'' Bryan, were convicted by a Georgia jury on Nov. 24 for killing Arbery.
Travis McMichael, who shot fatally shot Arbery, was convicted on all nine charges, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder. Gregory McMichael was found not guilty of malice murder but was convicted on the remaining charges, including the felony murder counts. Bryan was found guilty of three of the felony murder counts and a charge of criminal intent to commit a felony.
