Just now, defense Kevin Gough calls again for mistrial in Arbery case. Saying protesters are intimidating the defendants by driving around the courthouse today with coffins displaying the defendant's names. "This is not a figurative mob, but a literal mob," Gough says.
https://twitter.com/Brandi_Buchman/status/1462867163161800714
Prosecutors say if the jurors would have seen it, that would be one thing. But jurors are not seeing this and that a request for mistrial should not be granted.
In case you missed it in the other thread, the judge denied the request from defense for a mistrial because of protesters outside the courthouse. Defense atty Kevin Gough called the protesters "Black Panthers or something"
CNN w/reporters on the ground, reported that demonstrators outside courthouse are members of the New Black Panther Party and Lions of Judah. A spox for law enforcement said groups were peaceful, nothing to suggest otherwise. The few w/weapons are there only exercising 2A
It took me a moment to make sure I heard what I did, but yes, surely, defense atty Gough bizarrely suggested that perhaps it was a "divine providence" or "karma" that led to Roddie Bryan to follow and record Arbery being chased by the McMichael father/son duo.
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