General Thoughts on Georgia shooting?

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Shinkicker

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Lawyers for one of the defendants in the trial of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have asked prosecutors for a plea deal, Arbery family attorney Lee Merritt told CBS News. Merritt said the prosecution "turned it down — flat out."

The request came from attorneys for William "Roddie" Bryan — the man who admitted to pursuing and boxing in Arbery with his vehicle and filmed the fatal shooting in Brunswick, Georgia last year, Merritt said.

Merritt told CBS News he believes the request means Bryan is "concerned about the strength of the state's case." ......

 

Speaker to Animals

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Lawyers for one of the defendants in the trial of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have asked prosecutors for a plea deal, Arbery family attorney Lee Merritt told CBS News. Merritt said the prosecution "turned it down — flat out."

The request came from attorneys for William "Roddie" Bryan — the man who admitted to pursuing and boxing in Arbery with his vehicle and filmed the fatal shooting in Brunswick, Georgia last year, Merritt said.

Merritt told CBS News he believes the request means Bryan is "concerned about the strength of the state's case." ......

Lawyers o' TMMAC, what else could be a reason for requesting a plea deal?
 

Hauler

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Whoever pulled the trigger should spend the rest of his life behind bars. When you initiate the conflict, you can't claim self defense when someone reacts to your attack.

Not sure what I'd do with the other rednecks. I'll let you guys figure that out.
 

Filthy

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Whoever pulled the trigger should spend the rest of his life behind bars. When you initiate the conflict, you can't claim self defense when someone reacts to your attack.

Not sure what I'd do with the other rednecks. I'll let you guys figure that out.
they were all participating in the same activity with the same objective. All of them were required for it to shake out that way, they should all be on the yard together.
 

Hauler

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they were all participating in the same activity with the same objective. All of them were required for it to shake out that way, they should all be on the yard together.
I'm honestly fine with that. Fuck 'em.
 

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I don't know about y'all, but if there's a problem in my neighborhood that seems worth the effort, I call the cops to do the cop shit.

I'm not gonna go good ol' boy truckin', a-lookin' for trouble
 

Filthy

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either Roddie has the best attorney, or the other two are so totally fucked that they got no prayer.
 

Filthy

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I have 8 sites with night shift. 6 dollar an hour premium. Interested?
Intel Corp did a company-wide pay increase of 6%.

I told a couple friends (all work at different tech companies) at lunch that my wife had the same undergrad degrees as me and was putting her resume out, all 3 asked for her resume and started arguing about who would get it first.

The guy who's been an independent consultant for the last 3 years just took a full-time WFH job with low 6 figures and a 30% annual bonus.
 

Filthy

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judge is laying a chill and professional smack-down on Roddie's lawyer in the requests for charges to the jury.
 

Filthy

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just trying to get the jury charged with considering if he had a mens rea angle with the pursuit, or if when he flipped a U-turn he "abandoned the conspiracy"...stuff like that.

Judge just let him roll through his pitch, let the prosecutor say "but the law", and the judge just real chill "nah, think court will deny that request."
 

Filthy

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guess nobody saw that if the judge charges the jury as he intends, all 3 are getting done with a directed verdict.

In defense closing arguments, they conceded that none of them had probable cause from witnessing a crime in progress or having first-hand knowledge of a criminal. The statute then has another paragraph that states "if the crime is a felony, citizens can pursue and detain."

the defense tried to make the case that the felony provision was a separate criminal provision, and meant that they could pursue if they had knowledge of a felony that was not "first-hand or immediate."

Judge was 'LoL Nah Fam, I'm the literate type of Georgian. The second paragraph is a further provision of the first"

all 3 defense attorneys were like "ummmm....you know that's going to be a directed verdict because we conceded that in our arguments"

the son's attorney asked if he could send over an annotated brief this weekend supporting his interpretation. The other two just looked at him with pity, like 3 kids who got caught stealing a shit and one of them is like "what if we put it all back?"

sounds they're getting done.
 

Filthy

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but for perspective, remember that if Roddie the Retard hadn't been filming, the version of events would have been that they walked up to talk to him and he tried to grab the gun. That was the story the County Sheriff and DA were taking when they decided to not press charges because of self-defense. It wasn't until the video was released by (IIRC) a defense attorney that public outrage forced the involvement of the GBI and state prosecution.
 

Shinkicker

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One of the defense attorneys:

“Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts, with no socks to cover his long dirty toenails,” she said.


FINGERS @KYLE RITTENHOUSE , I changed my mind. We are a nation of degenerates.