A U.S. judge in Georgia rejected a plea agreement reached between federal prosecutors and one of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, saying she was not willing to be bound to the 30-year federal prison sentence delineated in the agreement.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lisa Wood came after Travis McMichael admitted for the first time he had pursued the 25-year-old Black man because of his race.
McMichael was attempting to change his plea to guilty in the U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Ga., to using a gun in his attempt to apprehend Arbery because of
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