Greg McMichael sits with his attorney before the start of closing arguments to the jury during the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's alleged killers at Glynn County Superior Court. (Photo by Stephen B.
Morton-Pool/Getty Images) SAVANNAH, Ga. - The man who initiated the deadly chase that ended in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery won’t plead guilty to a federal hate crime in the 2020 killing of the unarmed Black man, according to a legal filing late Thursday.Greg McMichael reversed his plan to plead guilty in the federal case days after a U.S.
District Court judge rejected terms of a plea deal that was met with passionate objections by Arbery’s parents. McMichael’s defense attorney said in a legal notice filed jointly with prosecutors that McMichael plans to stand trial for a second time in Arbery’s death.JUDGE IN AHMAUD ARBERY DEATH HATE CRIMES CASE HEARS RACIAL EVIDENCEStill from a video showing Ahmaud Arbery jogging through a Brunswick neighborhood moments before he was shot and killed on Feb.
23, 2020. McMichael along with his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, were convicted of murder in a Georgia state court last fall and sentenced to life in prison.