'I Am Not Comfortable with Accepting the Terms': Federal Judge Rejects Plea Deal of Arbery killers

[Nevilledog]

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Adam Klasfeld
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BREAKING:

A federal judge REJECTS the plea deals for Ahmaud Arbery's convicted murderers, which would have included admissions their crime was racially motivated.

The family opposed the deal, which would put the killers in federal custody. @lawcrimenews

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A federal judge on Monday rejected the proposed plea agreements of Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, which would have admissions that their murder of Ahmaud Arbery was racially motivated.

Before the agreement was scuttled, the Arbery family passionately urged the court to reject the plea deal, which would have transferred them from state to a preferred federal custody for the first 30 years of their life sentence.

“Having considered all that was said today, and looking at the law that governs these agreements, it is my decision to reject the plea agreement in this case,” U.S. District Judge Lisa G. Wood said.

“I am not comfortable with accepting the terms of the plea agreement,” she added.

The agreements ask the court to impose a 30-year sentence on each McMichael, which include a “hate crime enhancement.” Those terms would run concurrently to the life sentences the two are already serving as a result of their murder convictions in state court in Georgia.

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. Nice Try Assholes

May you Rot in a jail in Georgia, instead of some comparatively cushy Federal prison.

[moondust]

2. Would federal custody allow

a future pardon by, say, a fellow racist in the White House?

[Nevilledog]

5. Only on the federal charges

[MissMillie]

3. If the sentences ran consecutively, instead of concurrently, I'd be okay with that

Why should they serve the same time for two different crimes? Especially crimes as serious as these?

[Nevilledog]

6. Time in federal custody is easier than state.

Conditions are usually better.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Didnt chauvin do something similar . A guilty plea in exchange for a fed prison

And possibly a trump pardon

[Nevilledog]

7. Trump couldn't touch a state conviction.

[PTWB]

11. If the goal is to get to spend your time in federal prison...

Then a federal pardon would defeat the purpose, as you’d be transferred back to the state prison you were trying to avoid in the first place.

[Paladin]

8. Outstanding. (nt)

[sop]

9. At least the Feds didn't give them the same sweetheart deal Acosta gave Epstein, allowing

the McMichaels to leave jail and go home during the day.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I am glad that this judge is listening to the family

[Buckeyeblue]

12. Would they serve in the super max prison in Colorado?

Is federal prison better than state prison? Seems like prison is prison.

[BComplex]

13. Not all prisons are created equal.

Some are pretty awful, and some are pretty easy.