Blayne Alexander is an NBC News correspondent, based in Atlanta.
ATLANTA — A panel of judges heard arguments Wednesday from attorneys seeking to overturn the hate crime conviction of three white men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through a subdivision in Georgia in 2020 before one of them killed the Black man with a shotgun. Gregory McMichael; his son, Travis McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, were found guilty of murder in a Georgia state court in November 2021. They were sentenced to life in prison.
“The benefit here I think the government alleged was vigilantism, the jury apparently decided that that among other things was the case,” Judge Britt Grant responded. Branch told Theodocion that she was not sure why a benefit that extends to the community would not also include the defendants, as they were members of the community. Prosecutor Brant Levine urged the judges to uphold the hate crime convictions. “I’d like to begin by focusing on what this case is really about, that Mr.
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