8 hours ago · BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The case against a former Georgia district attorney charged with discouraging police from arresting the man who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 took a blow Thursday as a police supervisor testified that the accused prosecutor never obstructed her during the investigation.. Jackie Johnson was the chief prosecutor for coastal Glynn County when Arbery was chased by white men ...

Jan 21, 2025 · The one-time Georgia prosecutor accused of using her office to impede the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is set to stand trial more than four years after the Black 26-year-old’s ...

2 days ago · BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys clashed before a trial jury Tuesday over whether a former prosecutor abused her power to try to protect the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in the streets of a quiet Georgia neighborhood nearly five years ago.. Jackie Johnson served as district attorney for coastal Glynn County when Arbery was pursued by white men in pickup trucks who saw him running ...

1 day ago · BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A jury watched video Wednesday of a police investigator telling the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery that he wasn’t being arrested soon after after he, his father and a neighbor had chased and killed the Black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood. “You’re going home today,” Glynn County police investigator Roderic Nohilly told Travis McMichael ...

2 days ago · BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A jury has now been seated in the criminal trial for the former prosecutor charged with interfering in the police investigation of the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

2 days ago · Johnson, who spent a decade as DA of the five-county Brunswick Judicial Circuit, stands accused of hindering the police investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s February 2020 murder.

Jan 21, 2025 · Former district attorney Jackie Johnson is accused of interfering with the police investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, nearly five years after he was murdered while jogging.

2 days ago · Ahmaud Arbery death: DA's request denied. A judge denies a request by a former prosecutor in Brunswick to halt her upcoming trial connected to the Ahmaud Arbery case. Prosecutors say former ...

Dec 11, 2024 · On Sept. 2, 2021, a grand jury indicted her on charges of violating her oath of office as Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney by allegedly directing officers not to arrest Travis McMichael, the son of her former employee, Greg, in Arbery’s murder.

Dec 12, 2024 · Greg and Travis McMichael, convicted of murdering Arbery, are serving life sentences for the fatal 2020 shooting in Brunswick. Prosecutors claim Johnson and Greg McMichael exchanged 16...