Arbery Hate Crime Case: Appeals Court Considers Overturning Conviction

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Arbery Hate Crime Case: Appeals Court Considers Overturning Conviction

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 late last month in a case that followed a national outcry over Arbery’s death. The …