Ahmaud Arbery's Killers to Argue Appeals of Hate Crime Convictions in March

Greg and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan, convicted of murder in 2022, seek to overturn their federal hate crime convictions.

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.