(CNN)Travis McMichael, one of three white men convicted of the murder of Amado Arbury, , Was sentenced to life imprisonment and 10 on Monday. A few years after this year's federal conviction, a hate crime was committed on charges of kidnapping and the use of weapons.
"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. She and other members of Arbury's family said she 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 life imprisonment is to be offered at the same time as his state sentence, in addition to a 20-year sentence for attempted kidnapping. It is provided continuously. The judge ruled that McMichael did not have the funds to pay the fine.
McMichael's lawyer, Amy Lee Copeland, claimed on Monday that the client would stay in federal detention center and serve a sentence at the Federal Bureau of Prisons instead of the Georgia Correctional Bureau.
McMichael was afraid of his life in state prison, Mr. Copeland said, and told the court that he had been threatened by "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".
The prosecutor opposed the request. If the defendants were indicted in different jurisdictions, they argued that the first judgment would take precedence.
The judge clearly agreed and told 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 about public and private blacks. Focused on what I talked to.
Defendant lawyer chases Arbury on a pickup truck through a nearby street, believing that McMichael's matches someone's description captured in footage recorded at a house under construction. He claimed to have stopped him for the police. 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.