Ahmaud Arbery's Parents Object To DOJ's Hate Crime Plea Deal
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The proposed plea agreements with Travis and Greg McMichael were filed late Sunday by prosecutors for the U.S. Justice Department.
The son and father convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery have reached a plea agreement that could avoid their trial on federal hate crime charges. Arbery's mother denounced the deal as a betrayal, and called on the judge to reject it.
The proposed plea agreements with Travis and Greg McMichael were filed late Sunday by prosecutors for the U.S. Justice Department. There was no mention of a deal with the third defendant in the case, William "Roddie" Bryan.
No details were disclosed about the federal deals, which would not affect their state murder convictions in Arbery's killing. All three men were sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 7 after a trial last fall.
