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Ahmaud Arbery | Prosecution recalls Maria Pagan the stand. Mid-morning break while waiting for the witness.
Judge tells jury "dont make up your mind, don't talk about the case".
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Maria Pagan testified yesterday.
They do not know where Pagan is but she's been waiting since 8:30 am to testify.
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Ahmaud Arbery | Court resumed. 29 Oct 2020, Derek Thomas' Special Grand Jury Exhibit Testimony added as evidence without Objection. It is being read.
Audio is bad.

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Ahmaud Arbery | Next Witness Kim Ballesteros. She lives in Brunswick, Ga for 17 yrs. She also lived in Satila Shores. She knows Greg and Travis McMichael.
She has a painting business.
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Ahmaud Arbery | her first house was bought in Satila Shores to flip the house but decided to live in the house. Property bought in April 2017. Then rented the house and lived in another house still in Satila Shores in Nov 2018.
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Her neighbors across the street were the McMichaels. They "lightly" socialize with the McMichaels. AUSA shows a map and asks her to localize 161 Zellwood. Then 229 Satila Dr. She can't localize both.

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The Satila Shores FB group : she was part of it. Says they discussed random stuff. AUSA asks if they discussed crime. She says yes. She wasn't concerned about crime in the neighborhood. Her purse was once stolen but she says it's her fault. She left the car open.
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After she moved away from Satila Dr. She randomly ran into Greg McMichael notably twice at Winn Dixie.
First encounter : concern about neighbor ; her next door neighbor, RW, renting a room to "people". One person seemed "shady".
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RW is white. The renters were [race] ??? Audio gone.
Renter later arrested? Audio gone.
2nd Encouter : Travis gun behind stolen. She was aware it was stolen from Travis' unlocked truck. Greg seemed agitated. AUSA asks about if Greg said anything about a suspect, audio gone.

Another encounter where he made comments about an African American woman. They were arte end of their driveway. Greg made uncomfortable comments. They were discussing their rentals and Greg talked about his experience with rentals/tenants.
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Greg talked about a specific renter, a large black woman whom didn't paid her rent very well. He called her a "big fat black woman". He was talking about how he disabled her A/C during the summer because she wasn't paying rent,to make her uncomfortable do she'd pay rent.

"You should've seen how her big black ass paid her rent" said Greg McMichael. Kim withdrew from the conversation. Says she was shocked in was racist. She was dissappointed.
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Balbo cross examination : asks about her purse being stolen. He tells her, she was uncomfortable about the racist comments yet approached him for help.
The uncomfortable convo : he goes over what she said. So Greg McMichael rented to people of color.

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Witness excused.
Next Witness to be called but they have matters they want to discuss.
Sidebar. Audio off.

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Typos. Sorry. Twitter blue needs to give me more time to edit.

Sidebar ended. Next Witness Stephanie B. [didn't catch the spelling]. She works as a deputy at the Glynn County Jail. She provides records to investigators and lawyers, serve civil papers etc.
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Phone calls at the jail : outgoing calls are allowed but not incoming calls. Calls are internet based & recorded. Each inmate has a pin. They're told after entering the pin that some calls might be recorded, not all.

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All calls outside of lawyers are recorded. Inmates are aware of it. Recording saying calls are recorded is played thrice. It is also in the handbook.
The recipient also heard the recording.

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They can call anyone as long as the number isn't restricted. The jail keeps a record and have access to the numbers dials. She provided the FBI with the defendants' phone records.
She's looking at her notes about a phone call made by Greg to Max.
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She listened to the entire call. Greg refers to Max as brother.
Next exhibit, Travis call to female identified as "Mum".
Clip being played [Greg/Max], talking about Greg being in jail.
Clip being played [Travis/Mum], first 2 seconds replayed. Can't hear.

"I'm just tired of being pursued and chased" said Travis in the call.
Witness excused.

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Next Witness Joe Mandala. He knows Travis McMichael. He was his boss at Mason Marine . Lived in GA 22 yrs. Navy for 25 yrs, operation Chief on Submarine for 20 yrs. He's not a HR Manager.

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They do maintenance on small boats for the Navy, at the Submarine base. As of Feb 2020, 12 employees and 2 managers were working. Travis worked there for 1.5 yrs. He was small boat driver. Travis had security clearance.
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23 Feb 2020, convo with Travis on a Sunday. They never spoke outside of work aside from work related issue. Travis told him he shot & killed someone. Travis told him about the murder and the break-ins in the neighborhood.

He said the believed the person he killed was the person doing the break-ins. Mandala asks if he shot him in his house, Travis said "no". Travis kept saying he was attacked, it was self-defense.

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He continued working after getting 2 days off after the murder. Mandala said Travis was mentally fine. In May, the video of the murder came out. Travis stopped working in May. Mandala watched the video and was upset and shocked.
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The video wasn't what Travis said. Travis' badges were taken away.

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Copeland for Travis McMichael on cross-examination. She asks about the work place.
No complaints about Travis at work.
Mandala reaffirmed that Travis lied. Disconnect between was Travis said and what Mandala saw on the video of the murder.

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REDIRECT | one question... Didn't hear bas audio.

Witness excused.

Maria Pagan as next Witness.

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Pagan got information on the vehicle F150 Travis truck and Chevy Silverado for William Bryan.
FBI requested info from the National Insurance BUREAU. The firsT digit of the VIN for the Chevy says it wasnt manufactured in the US.
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The Ford F150 was manufactured in Missouri. Chevy Silverado was manufactured in Mexico then shipped to Clarkson, GA.
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Copland for Travis McMichael cross-examination. She talks about the records about the 2 trucks.

Pagan is not excused but she has stepped down from the stand.
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Next Witness Chrissy Ronquille. She in the Coast Guard. She's a Healthcare provider there. She was stationed in Pascagoula, Mississippi where she encountered Travis McMichael.

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Travis was working at the station as a technician machinery 3rd class. She occasionally has a social relationship with Travis through her then boyfriend JP. Travis was leaving with JP and his uncle.

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Ronquille reported to Travis. They met outside occasionally less than 5 times. There was never any African American in the group. She's Caucasian. Asked if she ever dated an African American, she says yes.
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Her dating history topic came up with African Americans. First in a professional setting. An individual she used to date is now in the NBA, she made that comment. The convo took a turn. Ronquille took the comment as she's been sexually active with an African American.
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Ronquille felt disrespected. She's crying. The next comment "once you go black, you're in a wheelchair". She took it as an attack on her sexual activity. She didn't respond to the comments because he was her supervisor and it was her 1st time hearing comments like that.
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JP, then boyfriend didn't interfere. She didn't not report Travis because she didn't know about ressources available to her.
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Travis caller her a "N-word lover" she's asked to say the word, she says "Nigger". She's crying. Says it made her feel angry. She told her father. Her father was taken aback. Says she wasn't taught to use these words.
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Copeland on cross-examination. Goes over what Ronquille just testified. She didn't like Travis, she agrees.
She referred to him to the FBI as a "crazy motherfucker".

Now she talks about the "N-lover" comment. Copeland wants to play an audio. Judge says something about impeachment. Then audio off.

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Ronquille apparently told the FBI that she wasn't sure about the N-word comment. The audio Copeland wanted to play didn't function.
JP once said to a co-worker "you stupid Nigger".
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"It will just like red to shoot someone and take the law into his own hands", Ronquille said when she learned about #AhmaudArbery murder.

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REDIRECT | Did the Zero tolerance policy stopped Travis from making those racial comments? Ronquille says no. Asked why she doesn't like Travis, she says due to his comments about her dating history.
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Ronquille is excused. Lunch recess until 1:15pm.
Judge asks how many more witness, prosecution says 1.

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Court resumed. Next witness on the stand. [got disconnected] Didn't catch the name.
Prosecution said before lunch that there was only one witness left.

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Witness is talking about being in Brunswick in 2015 from NY for a court matter.
Greg McMichael was present, he was still in the force. He drove the witness and daughter after their court matter.
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Julian Bond has died. And witness was sad about it. "All the Blacks are nothing but trouble, I wish they all die" Greg said.
Says he continue on this hateful and angry rant for a couple of minutes.
Witness & daughter were scared and remained quiet for the remainder of ride.

Cross-examination of Ms Pierce by Balbo for Greg McMichael. Ms Pierce had declined to talk to Balbo earlier.

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In her interaction with Greg McMichael was 7 yrs ago. 1st day he was cordial but next day he changed. Asked if she sent a "thank you note to the DA office" says " I don't remember".
Ms Pierce is excused from the stand.

The DA office is who sent Greg McMichael to take them to the airport after their court matter was over.

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Earlier a date error on exhibits 129 & 128 came up. Judge agreed to admit the corrected version of the exhibits. These are the documents for the F150 & Chevy Silverado registrations.
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Gouvernement rested its case.

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Government*

Judge sents jury to the jury room to discuss some matters in private with the counsels .
Judge asks for motions.
[answers can't be heard, bad audio]

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Government on motions : attempting kidnapping; Copeland just said vehicles can't be an instrument of kidnapping.
[Prosecution's audio is clearer]. Both vehicles were involved in Interstate commerce. McMichaels drove in front on #AhmaudArbery multiple on a effort to confine.

William Bryan used his vehicle to confine #AhmaudArbery. There's also the impact between his truck and Ahmaud.
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"The incident happened because #AhmaudArbery used of the street"
Could Would the incident had happened but for Ahmaud use of the street.
Government says, it provided enough evidence for a jury to make a decision.

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Judge denied the motions.
Rebuttal (Presentation of witnesses for the defendants) :

Copeland for Travis McMichael : [bad audio]
AJ Balbo for Greg McMichael : Yes
Mr. Theodocion For William Bryan : No

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Balbo's witness is present Evelyn Cofer. They'll "interview" her to see if her testimony would be valid in court. No jury.

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Cofer resided 48 years in Satila Shores. She never met Travis nor Greg McMichael. She's a member of the FB page.
(Balbo is asking the questions).
She didn't experienced crime herself.
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Once, she saw a white person under the Fancy Bluff Creek bridge with items all around him that indicated that he could've been living there.

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Travis McMichael commented what Cofer saw in the FB because he saw the same thing. She replied "thank you" (for the warning) to the comment.

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Cross-examination : both the Government and Balbo are emphasizing on the date / time / season on which she saw that person.
She never takes her boat out during the winter, so it's between Spring & Fall.

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Cofer is dismissed but might be recalled got more questions.
911 call will be played to that the judge can assess a link between that person under the bridge and the one the McMichaels saw.

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911 call made by Greg McMichael. Gives number & address. Greg and Travis discovered a guy whom might be living under the bridge and could be the person linked to recent crimes.
Greg asked to talk to a supervisor.
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Judge asks questions that Balbo is answering but the audio is bad so I'm not sure what it being answered.

Gov wants to correct the record : it's not a 911 call but rather a non-emergency call. Call has no relevance unless race can be determined. Balbo implied person was white. But there's no evidence of the race.
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Greg McMichael saw someone under the bridge and made the call. There's no fact that says that the person Cofer saw is the same person the McMichaels saw. Hence the emphasis on the date / time earlier.

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Greg saw a shaddy person in July. Linda Cofer saw a white person in April-September.
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Judge asks if the call was made to 911 or non-emergency number.
Balbo is answering, audio is bad.
Judge wants to listen again to that call.
Afternoon recess.

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Monday at 9:30am will be closing arguments.

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