A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for one of the men convicted in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled against the agreement made with Travis McMichael after hearing an emotional plea from Arbery's family who was opposed to the plea arrangements with McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael.
In rejecting the deal, Wood explained it would have locked her into specific terms –including 30 years in federal prison – at sentencing. Wood said that in this case, it would only be appropriate to consider the family’s wishes at sentencing, which the proposed deal wouldn’t allow.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...er/9282372002/
A Georgia man was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the shooting his then-estranged wife seven times after she told him that their marriage was beyond repair and asked for a divorce.
Cherokee Superior Court Judge David Cannon, Jr., sentenced Ronald Richard Goss, 57, on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his now ex-wife Tina Davis on Feb.11, 2018 in Ball Ground, Georgia.
Goss also pleaded guilty to home invasion, attempted arson, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and nine counts of family violence aggravated battery on Jan. 26, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...212653349.html
65 year sentence pleading guilty for attempted murder of a white woman
30 years in pen fed for not admitting guilt in murder of black man
* contriteness and admission of guilt are factors in sentencing .. along with murder > attempted murder .. along with law penalizes stranger violent crimes vs non stranger crimes
America ... its different for everyone.