U.S. appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery

U.S. appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took well over a year to rule after attorneys for the defendants urged the judges in March 2024 to overturn the case, arguing the men’s h…