[ad_1] Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A panel of judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over Ahmaud Arbery’s death. The men’s lawyers argue that evidence of past racist comments they…
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions
