Ahmaud Arbery's mother rejects federal plea deal for son's killers, attorney says
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Federal prosecutors asked Ahmaud Arbery's mother if she would consider a plea deal for her son's killers, and she declined, her attorney said Friday, shortly before the three men were scheduled to appear in a Glynn County, Georgia, court for sentencing.
The agreement would have put the men in federal prison for 30 years, attorney S. Lee Merritt said. That would have been in addition to any prison time a state judge hands down Friday.
"She rejected that offer because we believe that today the state will move forward with life sentences without the possibility of parole, and we think that's the appropriate sentence," Merritt told CNN, standing beside Wanda Cooper-Jones.
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