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A judge ended the trial of a former Georgian prosecutor on Wednesday, alleging that he uses his influence that pursued and killed these men to protect these men Ahmed Arbric Before going to the jury, suddenly stopping the case for a weekly case, throwing a serious person used to charge it.
Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson About five years ago in Coastal Gulnan County, when Arbari was shot dead, he has long denied the decision to influence the police against arrests, where Johnson then followed the high state prosecutor. Serve as a position. The judge’s decision closed the book on criminal charges, which had been hanging over Johnson for more than three years.
Johnson faced charges of his oath, a crime, and a violation of a mismanagement of the police during his trial last week. It ended on Wednesday morning without the jury’s decision, who heard the five -day testimony Witnesses including Johnson.
Senior Judge John R. Turner dismissed the allegations of violating the oath, when Johnson’s lawyers argued that the person on 2021 was a serious flaw due to technical mistakes and eventually failed to accuse him of any crimes.
“Telling the truth, this is a decision that I didn’t want to make,” the Turner said in court. But he said the person needed to give defense challenge for crime. ”
Turner on Monday Ordered Johnson to be evil Charge of mismanagement obstruction. He pronounced the verdict after his trial, and announcing that he had failed to show “a Scientila of a evidence” that Johnson had instructed police investigators to shoot the Arbri. Don’t arrest.
Arbor’s parents He said he still believes that Johnson tried to protect the men who killed his son. His father, Marcus Arberi Senior, called the trial a decision to end the “destructive”. His mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said he believed the jury would have sentenced Johnson.
“There was evidence of this,” Cooper Jones told reporters. “We all know that Jackie Johnson participated in the death of Ahmed.”
On February 23, 2020, after watching a 25 -year -old black man running out of his neighborhood outside Port City Burnsk, father and son Greg and Travis McMylon equipped himself with guns and a pick -up to chase Arbor Used the truck. A neighbor, a neighbor, William “Rudy” Brian, joined the pursuit of his own truck and recorded a cellphone video of Travis McMyl, which was shooting for Arbrie in a nearby boundary with shoot guns.
More than two months have passed without any arrest. After that, the video of the shooting was leaked online, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took the case on behalf of the local police. The three men were later charged and Were convicted of murder And federal Hate crime In separate trials.
Georgia’s attorney Chris Car ordered Johnson’s investigation, which resulted in the charge of 2021. Prosecutors for the car’s office accused Johnson that he stopped the information that a neighboring District Attorney had appointed in the case by Kerr, he had already advised the police to defend Arbri himself. I have been shot.
Greg McMil had worked for Johnson as an investigation and retired last year. He left a voice mail to help Johnson.
Johnson refused to do wrong acts on the witness’s position, saying he never asked anyone to save MacMills. George Bern Hill, one of the three external prosecutors assigned to handle the Arbri case, testified that he concluded that Johnson had justified the firing without input.
“Ahmad Arbri was slaughtered without cause, and then Attorney General Kerr Pigyback, on the biggest tragedy … and an innocent woman charged an innocent woman,” said Johnson’s lead Defense Attorney. He added: “Jackie was painted as a person who supported racism. This is just wrong.
Johnson was voted out of his position in November 2020, and he widely defeated his defeat over the assassination of Arbri. She left the court house on Wednesday without talking to reporters.
The prosecution struggled to make the case. His own witnesses called to testify how the district attorney handled conflicts of interest, he told the jury that he did not see that Johnson had worked illegally. In this case, Johnson has been accused of instructing two police officers not to arrest Travis McMil. One of them, Stephanie Oliver, testified that this had never happened. Another officer has never been called as a witness.
In a statement, the car said his office has “worked to make every effort to ensure the service of justice.”
Kerr said, “We stand with the matter we have presented,” and we are sorry that the jury will not be decided. “
Johnson’s defense lawyers asked the judge to reject the crime last week. Turner delayed the decision by Wednesday morning. He did not explain his reasoning.
Johnson’s lawyers argued that the allegations of oath -taking was cited in 2010 for violating the oath. At the time he was charged, he said, Johnson took a new oath after winning the re -election in 2016.
Defense lawyers also said that Johnson has been accused of actions that are not an oath in the crime. It states that he has shown Greg McMille’s “kindness and love”, he has failed to treat Arbari’s family with “justice and dignity”, and he has the car’s office. It did not disclose that it had formally added Burn Hale’s aid list before the appointment.
Steel said, “He did not commit any crime.” “It was said that Jackie did not show the Dignity of the Ahmadud Arbari family because he told the Attorney General some things. All this is lawful.
