ADADS. Lee Merritt, the lawyer representing Arbery’s parents, applauded the move to further examine what he called the “potential cover-up” of a murder. “We have requested the involvement of the DOJ since we first took this case,” Merritt wrote. First, it went to Jackie Johnson in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, who recused herself from the case in February because Gregory McMichael was previously an investigator in her office. ADThen it went to George E. Barnhill, district attorney for Georgia’s Waycross Judicial Circuit, who recused himself after Arbery’s mother complained that Barnhill’s son used to work with McMichael in the Brunswick district attorney’s office, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. In the letter recusing himself, Barnhill laid out an argument that the men’s actions were legal under the state’s citizen’s arrest and self-defense statutes.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2020 00:53 UTC