Updated at 4:06 p.m.
A dispute over whether Black people were stricken from the jury pool because of their race has disrupted seating a final jury in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Attorneys narrowed a pool of 48 people to 12 final jurors Wednesday. Minutes after they did, prosecutor Linda Dunikoski announced that only one of those 12 jurors was Black and the rest were white. She challenged defense attorneys’ decisions to eliminate seven Black panelists from the jury pool, saying they were based on race.
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