Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Let's not forget about the Georgia Jogger trial going on!

I'm not staying glued on it but trying to check up occasionally

He was a good boy

Keep us updated.

I really dont know what to think. I think we all agree he was up to no good, but to chase him down in a truck and jump out with a shotgun....


If it wasnt filmed, we wouldnt even be talking about this case.

That's liberal BS. You are not required to go unarmed when you endeavor to detain a burglar for the police. It was Arbery's grabbing of the shotgun that got him killed. What should the defendant have done? Let a suspected burglar wrest the shotgun from his grip?

He was known to steal.
And use "jogging" as a cover.

Reportedly laughed about it.

Finally got caught by folks a little more serious, and IMHO he knew the game was over, and why he went for the gun.

Some folks, when they see their crap aint gonna cut it...........push things to the max.

SOP for certain criminals.

I didn't say if it was legal or illegal....but would you have done what they did?

Judge wouldnt allow any of his priors in court.

I don't know about his priors. There was no record on the videos of him stealing anything.
I just heard on the news yesterday that he wanted to be electrician like his uncle. That could easily explain his interest in the house under construction. Early in my career I would look at homes under construction to see how things were done.
The situation is sad, if he hadn't rushed the gun he'd still be alive. Sit on the curd and wait for the cops.

He had a couple for sure, I think one was a gun charge from 2013, at a school. Local law enforcement called him "the jogger" because that was his excuse for every time they had to deal with him. They tried to get police reports, etc admitted from his earlier altercations but judge said no.

Out of a Savannah Paper

"In a written order, Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley ruled evidence of Arbery’s past run-ins with the law could unfairly “lead the jury to believe that although Arbery did not apparently commit any felony that day, he may pose future dangerousness in that he would eventually commit more alleged crimes, and therefore, the Defendants’ actions were somehow justified.”

“The character of victim is neither relevant nor admissible in murder trial,” the judge wrote in his ruling Monday."

"Arbery was unarmed when he was killed. Prosecutors have said nothing was stolen from the construction site and Arbery was merely jogging.

Defense attorneys have also asked the judge to let them introduce evidence Arbery suffered from a mental illness. Walmsley has not ruled on that request.

Arbery pleaded guilty to charges he carried a gun onto a high school campus in 2013, a year after he graduated. Rodney Ellis, police chief for the Glynn County school system, testified at Wednesday’s hearing that Arbery tried to evade officers on foot and stopped only when two of them pointed guns at him.

He was also arrested in 2017 on charges that he tried to steal a TV from a Walmart store. Court records show he pleaded guilty to shoplifting. Arbery was on probation at the time of his death."

Rushing an armed man is a very bad idea, in Brunswick, Ga. or Kenosha, WI.

Those boys are going to the Big House.

The Big House is in Macon and is an awesome Allman Bro museum.

https://thebighousemuseum.com/

I think the question is “how long.”

They will probably re-institute hanging for this one.

These guys will get found guilty! Right or wrong! Sad on both sides, when they could have called the police and kept him under observation. There is a time for armed confrontation, this wasn't one of them.

Wonder what the theft rate is around there now, since that one taken off the observation list.