The legal counselors believe District Attorney Jackie Johnson and District Attorney George Barnhill mismanaged Arbery’s case.
In excess of 300 Georgia, legal counselors are requiring the previous lead prosecutors who were associated with Ahmaud Arbery’s case resigned.
As indicated by CBS 46, the lawyers and multiple civil rights organizations executed an open letter requesting that Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson and Waycross District Attorney George Barnhill resign from their jobs because of the manner in which they took care of the suspects associated with Arbery’s passing.
“It shocked me to see that there were two district attorneys in South Georgia — in Waycross and Brunswick — who I felt weren’t doing what they took their oath to do,” said attorney Chris Richardson, who signed the letter.
“There were a lot of issues in both the actions — in both Barnhill and Jackie Johnson — that we as attorneys needed to speak up and say something about it. And not only that, but the fact that George Barnhill wrote this letter prematurely exonerating the McMichaels and in that letter he offered factually incorrect and legally unsound information,” he said. “What I wanted to say with 313 other attorneys across Georgia was enough was enough.”
Back in February, Arbery was lethally shot while running through a Georgia neighborhood. The two men who were engaged with the shooting — Travis and Gregory McMichael — were not captured until some other time.
The dad and son took their weapons and hopped into their truck to follow Arbery. Before long, there was a battle over the gun, and he was shot and murdered. William Bryan recorded the episode and was later indicted as being involved.
The three white male suspects were each accused of nine counts: four counts of felony murder, false imprisonment, malice murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.
The FBI is researching if due process was followed by Johnson and Barnhill, who each detailed the case as an irreconcilable circumstance and mentioned that it moves to another prosecutor.
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