Overview

• Three men convicted of hate crimes for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 will have their appeals heard by a federal court in March.
• The men, Greg and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan, were convicted of murder in a Georgia state court in 2022.
• Prosecutors used evidence of past racist comments by all three men to argue they targeted Arbery because he was Black.
• The McMichaels and Bryan are asking the court to throw out the hate crime convictions, arguing they chased Arbery because they believed he was a criminal, not because of his race.
• Also pending are appeals by all three men of their murder convictions in Glynn County Superior Court.