The legal professional for the person who shot the video of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s taking pictures dying stated his consumer has taken a voluntary lie detector check that confirmed he was not concerned within the slaying, in keeping with stories.
“Opposite to hypothesis, the polygraph examination confirms that on Feb. 23 2020, the day of the taking pictures, William ‘Roddie’ Bryan didn’t have any dialog with both Gregory or Travis McMichael previous to the taking pictures,” Kevin Gough stated Monday night time, referring to the daddy and son charged with the homicide, Motion Information Jax reported.
“Nor did William ‘Roddie’ Bryan have any dialog with anybody else that day previous to the taking pictures about legal exercise within the neighborhood,” he added throughout a information convention on the Glynn County Courthouse.
Gough stated the outcomes of the polygraph, which Bryan took voluntarily, have been shared with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
The legal professional famous the check isn’t thought-about admissible in courtroom however does present that Bryan was unarmed on the time of the taking pictures, didn’t have any dialog with the suspects earlier than the taking pictures and was unaware of any plan to take a life, in keeping with First Coast Information.
Bryan started recording the footage shortly earlier than Gregory, 64, and Travis, 34, stopped Arbery with their truck and confronted him as he ran down Holmes Highway in Brunswick, Georgia, on Feb. 23 throughout what his household says was a jog .
“With out his video there could be no case,” Gough stated.
Police stories present Bryan – who has at all times insisted he was only a good Samaritan — tried to dam Arbery himself whereas the 25-year-old was working down Burford Drive, the information outlet reported.
However Gough stated his consumer was only a witness and never a “vigilante,” a characterization the legal professional stated was being perpetuated by Arbery’s household and its authorized counsel.
The legal professional additionally stated Bryan has misplaced his job, acquired dying threats due to the video and has been in hiding alongside together with his fiancée.
“Mr. Bryan isn’t your enemy,” Gough stated, in keeping with CNN. “Please cease, if not for the sake of my consumer’s household, then for the sake of the Arbery household and the trigger you battle for.”
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He added: “Killing off the star witness for the prosecution is not going to assist convey Ahmaud’s killers to justice.” The McMichaels are charged with homicide and aggravated assault in Arbery’s dying, however these arrests weren’t made till after the video surfaced.
They’ve informed investigators they thought Arbery was burglarizing a house beneath building within the Satilla Shores neighborhood on the day of the taking pictures.
In the meantime, an legal professional for Arbery’s household stated throughout an interview on CNN Monday night time that they need Bryan arrested regardless of his legal professional’s declare that he was not concerned within the dying.
“We’re going to proceed to push for the arrest of William Bryan for recording and collaborating within the ambush of Ahmaud Arbery,” S. Lee Merritt informed CNN’s Don Lemon.
“His household deserves justice from not solely the 2 males who’ve been arrested, however from anybody who participated in that act,” Merritt added.