Fox 5 Atlanta: “One of the men accused of chasing and murdering Ahmaud Arbery is fighting to ban certain photo evidence from his upcoming trial. Travis McMichael and his attorneys have requested that the court ban a photo of his old Georgia flag-theme vanity license plate, which includes a Confederate emblem. In response, the state asked the court to deny the motion, saying the plates were on the truck at the time of the incident when Arbery was shot and killed.”
“Earlier this month, a Georgia judge ruled that Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as trial evidence by the defense, ruling that his medical privacy, even in death, trumped the rights of the men standing trial to a robust defense. And he concluded that a registered nurse’s ‘highly questionable diagnosis’ that Arbery suffered from mental illness during his first and only visit to a mental health services provider in 2018 could unfairly prejudice a trial jury. ‘There is no evidence that the victim was suffering from any mental health issue, or had otherwise decompensated, on February 23, 2020,’ the date Arbery was killed, the judge’s ruling said.”