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A Prosecutor’s Winning Strategy in the Ahmaud Arbery Case

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Marnias Gentlemen, in the Trial Itself, Starting With Her Opening Argument

Marnias gentlemen, in the trial itself, starting with her opening argument. Why are we here? We are here because of assumptions and driveway decisions. She really framed her opening argument around the central idea that these three men had made. All three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions, not on facts, not on evidence, on assumptions that took a young man's life. I think you can read the word assumption in the context of a deep south murder trial as potentially signalling to a jury like this that the assumption was ok, black mail. Therefore, up to no good.

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