Defense attorney referred to Arbery as a 'recurring nighttime intruder' in her closing arguments and pointed fingers at Arbery for his own death.
In the closing arguments of the trial of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, Greg McMichael's defense attorney suggested that the 25-year-old Black jogger's actions were also to blame for his death.
Hogue suggested to the jury that Arbery would still be alive if he had not run away from Travis McMichael, McMichael's father Greg and William"Roddie" Bryan on February 23, 2020, when the three white men confronted him in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia. Defense attorney Laura Hogue said Ahmaud Arbery's actions are also to blame for his death during the closing arguments in the trial of the three men accused of killing Arbery. Pictured, Hogue speaks during the trial of the alleged killers of Ahmaud Arbery at the Glynn County Courthouse on November 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia.
The McMichaels and Bryan have been charged with nine criminal counts, including felony murder. The three men are accused of using their pickup trucks to chase and gun down Arbery before fatally shooting him with a 12-gauge shotgun. Hogue said she was not suggesting Arbery deserved to die that day, but that"he died because for whatever inexplicable, illogical reason, instead of staying where he was, whatever overwhelming reason he had to avoid being captured that day and arrested by the police, he chose to fight."
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