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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Arbery killers' failed pleas may complicate hate crime trial

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery already faced steep obstacles to finding unbiased jurors for their upcoming trial on federal hate crime charges.

Now, with jury selection scheduled to start Monday, there’s a new complication: Two of the defendants — the man who shot Arbery and his father — offered last week to plead guilty before a deal they had reached with prosecutors fell apart.

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