Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Tuesday in the trial of a former Georgia prosecutor accused with interfering in the police investigation of Ahmaud Arbery's murder. Greg McMichael ...

Editor’s note (February 5, 2025): Since this story was published, Jackie Johnson was acquitted of the misdemeanor count of obstructing police, and the judge dismissed the felony count of ...

A Middle Georgia man has been convicted of race-based hate crimes after threatening a federal postal worker and hitting the worker’s mail delivery vehicle with his tractor.

Nearly five years later, Johnson is going to trial on charges that she used her office to interfere with police investigating Arbery’s killing. Jury selection is scheduled to start Tuesday in ...

ending her trial on charges that she abused her power by trying to protect the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020. Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson for years denied influencing ...

(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 ...

Arbery was killed by two close-range shots as ... The former prosecutor is on trial charged with violating her oath of office, a felony punishable by one to five years in prison.

As the five-year anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder approached, his family had been awaiting the final stage in their pursuit of criminal accountability — but the trial of a former ...

Johnson’s misconduct trial will be held in the same courthouse where Arbery’s assailants were convicted of murder in 2021. Senior Judge John R. Turner dismissed 15 potential jurors Tuesday ...

The one-time Georgia prosecutor accused of impeding the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is set to stand trial more than four years after the Black 25-year-old’s death, which fueled ...