re: #183 Targetpractice

Since GA has no hate crime laws, it’s all going to be self-defense at trial. The McMichael’s will have a defense strategy of playing down everything prior to the confrontation as “legal” or “misguided,” while insisting that the relevant moment was when (according to the accused) this “thug” attacked them and tried to make a grab at one of their weapons. They “fear for their lives” and so shot him in “self-defense,” a tragic set of circumstances that wouldn’t have happened had he just stopped and “answered their questions.

And note this will be before they proceed to character assassination by bringing in his past misdeeds while playing up the McMichael’s and their “years of service” as DA’s investigators.

So it’s going to hinge on jury selection and how much bullshit the judge is willing to put up with?