Travis McMichael Requests New Trial | “The State Never Proved Beyond a Reasonable Doubt He Was ‘Guilty’ of Killing Ahmaud Arbery”

Travis McMichael along with his father Gregory McMichael were both sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole + 20 years fir the murder ti black man Ahmaud Arbery.

Convicted murderer Travis McMichael says that he wants a new trial around his involvement in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The request for the new trial comes weeks after he and his father were sentenced, on Jan. 7, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

According to a motion obtained by STESS News, McMichael’s lawyers contend that the prosecution did not prove that their client was guilty and that four points substantiate their claim.

McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were convicted on Nov. 24, 2021, of nine charges, in the February 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man jogging in their Satilla Shores community in Brunswick, Georgia.

A video, shot by their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, was used as the smoking gun in the case, showing the son shooting the unarmed man in the middle of the street. On Jan. 7, Bryan also was sentenced by Judge Timothy Walmsley; he received life in prison plus 20 additional years and no chance for parole.

McMichael’s legal defense team from the office of Peters, Rubin, Sheffield & Hodges P.A. filed the motion on Jan. 10. They want the state to set aside the verdict and sentencing because the prosecution did not show that the younger McMichael was guilty of the crime “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The attorneys also suggest that even if the state proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, “the evidence was sufficiently close to warrant the trial judge to exercise his discretion to grant the defendant a retrial.”

They further charged that “the verdict is contrary to law and the principles of justice and equity,” and “The Court committed an error of law warranting a new trial.”

A new trial could cost locals hundreds of thousands of dollars. The last one, totaling the security and other expenses related to the three men’s trial, cost county taxpayers $1.8 million, The Brunswick News reports.

The money went to expenses such as overtime pay, extra sheriff’s deputies, emergency management authority officials, police and other public safety personnel who were tapped to provide additional security for one of the largest cases in Georgia’s history.

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