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Former Georgia Prosecutor On Trial For Interfering In Investigation

Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson sits in the courtroom Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Brunswick, Georgia, as jury selection begins in her misconduct trial. Johnson is charged with interfering with

Jury selection is set to conclude Tuesday in the criminal misconduct trial of a former Georgia prosecutor charged with interfering in the police investigation of the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The former District Attorney is accused of violating her oath of office and hindering police as they investigated Arbery's killing.

The incident involved a group of white men with guns and pickup trucks chasing and fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, on a neighborhood street after wrongly suspecting him of theft. The man who initiated the pursuit had ties to the local district attorney's office.

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