Ahmaud Arbery’s killers avoided arrest at first. Now an ex-prosecutor faces trial for misconduct
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Ahmaud Arbery’s killers avoided arrest at first. Now an ex-prosecutor faces trial for misconduct

Associated Press  

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Barely an hour after his son killed Ahmaud Arbery with a shotgun after they chased him through their neighborhood, Greg McMichael made a call for help to his former boss, the area’s chief state prosecutor. “My son and I have been involved in a shooting, and I need some advice right away,” McMichael said in a voicemail left on District Attorney Jackie Johnson’s cellphone. Nearly five years later, Johnson is going to trial on charges that she used her office to interfere with police investigating Arbery’s killing. Carr said he appointed Barnhill based on Johnson’s recommendation, but wasn’t told Barnhill already had advised police that Arbery’s killing wasn’t a crime. Her lead defense attorney, Brian Steel, said during a December pretrial hearing that Johnson was focused on seeking an unrelated high-profile indictment and “didn’t know what was going on with Ahmaud Arbery’s case.” Prosecutors haven’t disclosed much of their trial evidence, but said in court records that 16 calls were made between cellphone numbers for Greg McMichael and Johnson in the weeks following the shooting.

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