Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.
A panel of judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over Arbery’s death. The men’s lawyers argue that evidence of past racist comments they made didn’t prove a racist intent to harm.
Unless they can prove that no other people ever went jogging through that neighborhood without being chased down and shot at, then there is a reason they specifically chose this person to chase down and shoot at.
Notable: their argument is that it was unfair to have used their social media posts in trial because what was said inflamed the jury against them. They are literally saying that you can’t use their past words against them because they were so bad that a jury would automatically react against them.
We need to dig a hole. Like, a really deep hole. Like, so deep. And then throw these fucks and and their lawyers into it.
Disagree on the lawyers. Their job is to zealously represent whoever the client might be, and anything less than that risks a mistrial due to ineffective representation. Borrowing former prosecutor Emily D. Baker’s words (from a Depp v. Heard livestream), not making such a motion is almost considered legal malpractice.
You wouldn’t want those three cunts to walk free because of a procedural mistake.
Everyone hates a defense lawyer until they need one
Except sovereign citizens, they’ll hate them all the more once they need one.
It’s unconstitutional to torture them.
Better do separate holes so they don’t annoy each other.
Correction, it’s only unconstitutional if it’s also really weird. The rule prevents punishments that are both cruel and unusual, not cruel or unusual
No
“Lol”, the court said. “Lmao.”
