检察官周二对三名被控追捕并开枪致命伤的白人男子立案Ahmaud Arbery，在向陪审团展示了25岁黑人男子尸检中令人毛骨悚然的照片后。
检察官琳达·杜尼可斯基在8天时间里出示证据并传唤证人后，于周二下午告诉法官蒂莫西·沃尔姆斯利，“国家处于休息状态”。
沃尔姆斯利让由11名白人和一名黑人组成的陪审团晚上回家。
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检察官琳达·杜尼可斯基要求在审判中向法庭出示证据...
65岁的被告格雷戈里·麦克迈克尔、他35岁的儿子特拉维斯·麦克迈克尔和他们的邻居52岁的威廉·罗德迪·布莱恩的律师预计将于周三开始出示证据。
这些人对谋杀、严重伤害和企图非法监禁的指控不认罪。
麦克迈克尔夫妇通过他们的律师声称，在他们怀疑阿尔贝里是窃贼后，他们试图逮捕一名公民，特拉维斯·麦克迈克尔出于自卫开枪打死了他。
布莱恩的律师凯文·高夫将他的开庭陈述推迟到检方陈述案情之后。高夫可能会被允许在辩方开始传唤证人之前发表声明。
法医作证
检方周二传唤佐治亚州调查局的法医病理学家埃德蒙·多诺霍博士到证人席上，就他对阿贝里进行的尸检作证。
“他的死因是多处枪伤，”多诺霍作证说。
Dunikoski向Donoghue展示了一系列在尸检过程中拍摄的照片，并要求法医对每张照片进行详细描述
多诺霍说，他在看到布莱恩拍摄的手机视频之前进行了尸检，该视频拍摄了特拉维斯·麦克迈克尔与阿贝里搏斗并用雷明顿泵动猎枪射杀该男子的部分画面。
根据多诺霍的说法，阿贝里的胸部中央和腋窝附近的胸部左侧都有枪伤，他补充说，阿贝里右手腕上的擦伤显然是由胸部中央的同一爆炸造成的，这与一个人试图推开或抓住猎枪是一致的。
他作证说，任何伤口都可能杀死阿贝里，甚至他手腕上的擦伤。
“它涉及尺动脉，”多诺霍谈到手腕上的静脉时说，“所以受压的血液会从这个伤口喷出。”
Dunikoski指出了Arbery脸上的擦伤，并询问这些擦伤是如何发生的。
“它们是由没有防备的坠落造成的。没有防备的摔倒是指你失去意识，摔倒在地上，无法伸出双臂保护自己，”多诺霍说。
尸检照片不仅显示了Arbery身体上的创伤，还显示了猎枪子弹造成的许多出口伤口。多诺霍还指出，在阿贝瑞躯干前后的皮肤下有突出的小球。
Arbery的母亲离开了法庭
多诺霍在作证时曾描述过阿贝里遇害时穿的短裤和t恤，以及他的跑鞋。
阿贝瑞的母亲旺达·库珀-琼斯曾试图低着头留在法庭上，但当她儿子的鞋子照片被展示出来时，她离开了。
多诺霍说，当他看到布莱恩拍摄的视频时，他修改了自己的一些发现。他作证说，他最初估计阿尔贝里是在3到4英尺远的地方被击中的，但在观看视频后，他说他将枪口到目标的估计距离改为3英寸到20英寸。
多诺霍用显示阿贝里与特拉维斯·麦克迈克尔搏斗的视频的静止画面作证说，他认为阿贝里的手腕和胸部中央的伤口发生在第一次爆炸时。第二枪没打中，第三枪打在了阿贝里的左侧。
检方的最后一名证人
在结束起诉前，杜尼可斯基把佐治亚州调查局负责人理查德·戴尔叫到证人席上。
根据检察官的说法，2020年2月23日，阿尔贝里在外出进行周日慢跑时被麦克迈克尔夫妇和布莱恩夫妇用皮卡追赶，这段视频追溯了他在布伦瑞克附近的萨提亚海岸附近走过的路。
在盘问戴尔的过程中，戈夫试图让调查人员同意，他的客户的手机视频显示，布莱恩可能已经放弃了追捕，甚至在回家的路上，他意外地再次遇到了阿贝里。
高夫认为布莱恩只是枪击事件的目击者，并不是追捕的积极参与者，检察官认为这种情况被证据所驳斥。
高夫指出，在他的客户的视频中，阿贝瑞一度躲在布莱恩的卡车后面，布莱恩倒车。他问戴尔，“这难道不符合布莱恩先生试图成为即将发生的一切的证人吗?”
“先生，”戴尔回应道，“我不相信他只是所发生事情的目击者。”
Key takeaways in Day 8 of Ahmaud Arbery case: Prosecution rests
Prosecutors rested their case on Tuesday against three white men charged with chasing down and fatally shootingAhmaud Arbery, after showing the jury gruesome photos from the 25-year-old Black man's autopsy.
"The state rests," prosecutor Linda Dunikoski told Judge Timothy Walmsley Tuesday afternoon, after presenting evidence and calling witnesses over eight days.
Walmsley sent the jury of 11 white people and one Black person home for the evening.
Attorneys for defendants Gregory McMichael, 65, his son, Travis McMichael, 35, and their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, are expected to begin presenting evidence on Wednesday.
The men have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, aggravated assault and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.
The McMichaels claim through their lawyers that they were attempting to make a citizens' arrest after they suspected Arbery of being a burglar, and that Travis McMichael shot him in self-defense.
Kevin Gough, the attorney for Bryan, deferred his opening statement until after the prosecution had presented its case. Gough likely will be allowed to give his statement before the defense begins calling witnesses.
Medical examiner testifies
The prosecution called Dr. Edmund Donoghue, a forensic pathologist for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to the witness stand on Tuesday to testify about the autopsy he conducted on Arbery.
"His cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds," Donoghue testified.
Dunikoski showed Donoghue a series of photos taken during the postmortem examination and asked the medical examiner to give a detailed description of each.
Donoghue said he conducted the autopsy before he saw a cellphone video taken by Bryan that captured part of Travis McMichael struggling with Arbery and shooting the man with a Remington pump-action shotgun.
Arbery suffered gunshot wounds to the center of his chest and to the left side of his chest near his armpit, according to Donoghue, who added that a graze wound on Arbery's right wrist apparently was caused by the same blast to the center of his chest, consistent with an individual attempting to push away or grab the shotgun.
He testified that any of the wounds could have killed Arbery, even the graze wound to his wrist.
"It involved the ulnar artery," Donoghue said of a vein in the wrist, "so blood under pressure would spurt from this wound."
Dunikoski pointed out abrasions on Arbery's face and asked how those could have occurred.
"They were caused by an unguarded fall. An unguarded fall is a fall where you have lost consciousness and fall to the ground without being able to put your arms out to protect yourself," Donoghue said.
The autopsy photos not only showed the traumatic wounds to Arbery's body but also numerous exit wounds from shotgun pellets. Donoghue also pointed out pellets protruding beneath Arbery's skin in the front and back of his torso.
Arbery's mother leaves courtroom
At one point during his testimony, Donoghue described the shorts and T-shirt Arbery was wearing when he was killed, as well as his running shoes.
Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, had attempted to stay in court with her head down but left when images of her son's shoes were displayed.
Donoghue said he revised some of his findings once he was shown Bryan's video of the shooting. He testified he initially estimated that Arbery was shot from 3 to 4 feet away, but after viewing the video he said he changed the estimated muzzle-to-target distance to 3 inches to 20 inches.
Using still frames of video that showed Arbery struggling with Travis McMichael, Donoghue testified that he believed Arbery's wrist and center chest wounds happened with the first blast. A second shot missed, and the third hit Arbery in his left side.
Prosecution's last witness
Before wrapping up the prosecution's case, Dunikoski called Richard Dial, the Georgia Bureau Investigation agent in charge, to the stand.
Dial narrated drone video retracing the path Arbery took through the Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick as he was allegedly being chased by the McMichaels and Bryan in their pickup trucks on Feb. 23, 2020, the day he was killed while, according to prosecutors, out for a Sunday jog.
During his cross-examination of Dial, Gough tried to get the investigator to agree that his client's cellphone video indicates Bryan had perhaps given up on the chase and was even heading home when he unexpectedly encountered Arbery again.
Gough has argued that Bryan was just a witness to the shooting and not an active participant in the chase, a scenario prosecutors contend is refuted by evidence.
Gough noted that at one point in his client's video Arbery gets behind Bryan's truck and that Bryan backs up. He asked Dial, "Wouldn't that be consistent with Mr. Bryan trying to be a witness to whatever is about to happen?"
"Sir," Dial responded, "I don't believe he was just a witness in what happened."
