Ahmaud Arbery's mother 'very' discouraged by makeup of nearly all white jury
ABC News
The opening statements in the murder case likely will begin Friday.
The mother of Ahmaud Arbery said it is "very, very discouraging" that the jury impaneled in the trial of the Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing her son is nearly all white.
The jury was selected on Wednesday to decide the fate of the three white men accused in the shooting death of Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who prosecutors allege was out for a jog in 2020 when he was attacked.
Opening statements in the murder trial will begin Friday in Brunswick, Georgia, the judge said.
"I have my concerns about getting a guilty verdict," Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones said in an interview with ABC News' Byron Pitts that is scheduled to air Friday night on "Nightline."
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