District attorneys “have a huge amount of discretion to make decisions about what cases to pursue,” criminal defense attorney Don Samuel said. “The notion that we’re going to start prosecuting DAs for prosecuting or not prosecuting strikes me as really being on the edge of propriety.”
September 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Three years after a former Glynn County, Georgia, district attorney was indicted on charges alleging she interfered with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the case’s slow progression through the court system has sputtered to a halt, one the presiding judge insists is temporary.
Jackie Johnson was the state’s top prosecutor for the coastal county in February 2020, when Arbery was chased by three white men in pickup trucks who had spotted him running in their neighborhood. The 25-year-old Black man died in the street after one of his pursuers shot him with a shotgun.
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Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson. (Credit: Glynn County Sheriff’s Office)
