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Arbery Trial Judge Delivers Massive Blow to the Defense on the Eve of Closing Statements

JonathanTurley

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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