This week, two of the three men prosecuted by the state for the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, received life sentences for committing federal hate crimes.
On the Tuesday edition of “Closer Look,” legal analyst Page Pate discusses the implications of the federal and state verdicts against the defendants.
The federal sentence against Travis McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, comes after mandated life sentences following a state trial. The federal jurisdiction, unlike the state trial, characterized the murder of Ahmaud Arbery as a hate crime.
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