Travis McMichael withdraws his guilty plea in the federal case against him in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Judge Lisa Godbey Wood refused a plea deal that would have sent Travis and Gregory McMichael to a federal prison instead of a state prison for up to 30 years.Travis McMichael withdrew on Friday his guilty plea in the federal case against him in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. The trial goes forward on Monday.
In accepting the change, the court agreed not to allow the statements made by the men last Monday in association with the plea, where they had admitted to targeting Arbery because he was Black.In this Nov. 17, 2021, file photo, Travis McMichael speaks from the witness stand during his trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga.
During a hearing on Monday in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia, Wood said she felt"uncomfortable" approving a plea deal that locked her into giving the McMichaels a three-decade sentence in a federal penitentiary. She noted that the case was in its early stages and said,"I can't say that 360 months is the precise, fair sentence in this case."
"Granting these men their preferred conditions of confinement would defeat me," Cooper-Jones told Wood."It gives them one last chance to spit in my face after murdering my son."
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