(CNN)Gregory and Travis McMichael, white fathers and sons convicted of the murder of Amado Arbury, I was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday. This year's federal conviction concerns an attempted kidnapping and the use of weapons, as well as a hate crime.
Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael were also sentenced to 20 years in prison from Monday for kidnapping and sentenced to imprisonment at the same time as the state sentence, Judge Lisa God Baywood of the U.S. District Court ruled on Monday. did. Travis McMichael receives another 10 years for continuous weapon charges, and Gregory McMichael now has another 7 years of continuous weapon charges. rice field. The judge ruled that both McMichael's did not have the funds to pay the fine.
"My son was shot three times, not twice, not once," Arbury's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said before Travis McMichael's sentence was handed down. Said she and other members of the Arbury family asked the judge. To give him the maximum possible judgment under federal guidelines.
"Your honor," she said. "I feel every shot fired every day."
Travis McMichael's lawyer, Amy Lee Copeland, claimed on Monday that the client would stay in federal detention and serve in the Federal Bureau of Prisons instead of the Georgia Correctional Bureau.
Travis McMichael was afraid to live in a state prison, Mr. Copeland said, and his client told the court that he had been threatened with "hundreds." She argues that forcing him to work in a Georgia prison is essentially the "backdoor death penalty" and could leave McMichael vulnerable to "vigilant justice." However, he admitted "rich irony".
Gregory McMichael's lawyer made a similar request, but at the age of 66 insisted that he should be put in federal prison for his health.
The prosecutor opposed both requests. If the defendants were indicted in different jurisdictions, they argued that the first judgment would take precedence.
The judge clearly agreed and told Travis McMichael that he had "no authority or tendency" to invalidate the rule.
Federal prosecutors say that each defendant uses inflammatory, derogatory, and racist language to support their allegations, publicly and privately about blacks. Focused on what I talked to.
Attorneys believe that McMichael's matches the portrayal of someone captured in footage recorded in a house under construction, and police chasing Arbury on a pickup truck through a nearby street. Claimed to have stopped him for. The prosecutor admitted that Arbury had entered the house in the past, but he took nothing.
The defense also claimed that Travis McMichael shot Arbury in self-defense while fighting for McMichael's shotgun. Brian joined the chase on his truck after seeing McMichael's running and chasing Arberry on the pickup. Brian recorded a video of the shoot.
Two prosecutors first instructed Glynn County police not to arrest, defendant was not arrested for more than two months-and nationwide after a video of Brian's murder surfaced Caused a protest.
