Ahmaud Arbery case: Preliminary hearings set for 3 men accused in murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Just to review your Schiff-show to date,

[Trump.Deplorable #134] He admits that his conflicts were an issue, if he is that stupid to put that in a report, then it was a problem and he admitted to it.
[Trump.Deplorable #169] Barnhill’s ‘denial’ was the issue, he actually did have a conflict and lied.
[Trump.Deplorable #178] He can write it all he wants that he doesn’t have a conflict, he RECUSED himself later because of the conflicts he claimed he didn’t have originally."

And your most recent deplorable example of Schiff-show desperate fiction:

[Trump.Deplorable #179]

“In that regard, given the connection between myself and my son, and my son having worked with Greg McMichael for several years, and now known that he and Greg McMichael both helped with the previous prosecution of Arbery; I believe it is in the best interest of justice to recuse both myself and my office from this particular investigation.”
Barnhill did recuse himself for conflicts, and his original letter was still and admission that he had conflicts, or he would not have written about them in the first place.

The part in blue font is fiction. A fairy tale should begin with "Once upon a time." A sea story should begin with "Now this ain't no shit."

Compare to what George Barnhill actually wrote:

My office received the Arbery autopsy report [dated 4 /1/2020] yesterday and have reviewed it yesterday and this morning. We were waiting on this important evidentiary article before finalizing our opinions.
However, since we were initially requested to handle the case the victim's mother has clearly expressed she wants myself and my office off the case. She sees a conflict in that my son works in the Brunswick District Attorney's Office where Greg McMichael retired sometime ago. She believes there are kinships between the parties [there are not] and has made other unfounded allegations of bias [es]. As such, I believe it is better for my office to step out and am going to recuse myself and the Assistants working for me from handling the case. I am contacting the Georgia Attorney General Office and seeking their assistance in finding another District Attorney in the State to handle the further evaluation for prosecution this case. That is, to determine whether there is sufficient evidence on which to make a Grand Jury presentation or not.

That Barnhill's son worked in an office 80 miles away, where Greg McMichael retired as an investigator a year ago, does not show a conflict of interest for George Barnhill.

Being unable to quote the non-existent Barnhill admission, you made crap up and put it in quotes. How deplorable is that? Your hero must be Adam Schiff.

As a matter that you have not even tried to explain, the third prosecutor, the one after Barnhill, Tom "Durden asked that the case be reassigned to an office with the resources to handle it." That prosecutor asked that the case be reassigned not because of any conflict, but because it would be better to do so, to accomodate the Crump/Merritt circus. This is proof that a recusal is NOT and ADMISSION of a conflict of interest.

This is just a repeat of the problem in the first instance at #134. You attributed content to a George Barnhill report/letter, while neither linking to, or quoting your make-believe part of the letter, in an effort to dupe the reader. Since I produced and quoted the entire letter, you have made a juvenile effort to not own what you did. On the positive side, your juvenile efforts provide some quantum of entertainment.

Trump.Deplorable #179] He walks it back and then lies about the when and what he knew.

Except in your fictional quote, Waycross County DA George Barnhill has not walked back anything. You, on the other hand, invented false content and attributed it to a report/letter of George Barnhill. Documenting the length you will go in an attempt to not own what you did in #134 is amusing.

The Crump/Merritt circus brings a tradition of trying cases in the press (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd), and failing miserably in the legal system. They obtain headlines and riots; convictions not so much.

Now we have even been given a second gentle giant. Who can forget Big Mike on video being a gentle giant in a convenience store? Big George most recently worked as a gentle bouncer in a club and has a rap sheet for 1997, 1998 (2), 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. That last was for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. "The largest of these suspects forced his way into the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant's abdomen, and forced her into the living room." But he stuck the pistol into her gut gently.

Crump/Merritt are the new generation of race pimps. They create more riots than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

The shot is right at the 0:30 second mark of the video at this USA Today link.

Mars Blackmon: "It's gotta be the shoes!" Air Timberlands!

Are you insane?

Give it up already

Barnhill lied, get over it

Now you are saying the Medical Examiner lied as well?

According to the ME, Arbery had gray athletic shoes on. That is exactly what he wrote.

I did not write that

“In that regard, given the connection between myself and my son, and my son having worked with Greg McMichael for several years, and now known that he and Greg McMichael both helped with the previous prosecution of Arbery; I believe it is in the best interest of justice to recuse both myself and my office from this particular investigation.”

BARNHILL DID

He wrote two letters, his CYA letter in Feb

And his recusal in April that contradicts his CYA letter in FEB

Don’t argue with me about it, argue with Barnhill, he wrote it.

Your boys are going to prison, get used to that fact

And Barnhill will get disciplined for his illegal conduct.

And next time, actually read the Barnhill memos, instead of falsely accusing me of writing them.

Idiot

Barnhill’s recusal letter is below:

“Dear Ms Crittendon and McGowan:

Thank you again for emailing back. This is a case without any law enforcement warrants. I agreed to take the file from Jackie Johnson, the District Attorney in Glynn County, for review to see if it justified and arrest and/or presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.

Greg McMichael, a party/ witness in the matter, retired from law enforcement then worked at her office as an investigator for several years up until re-retiring about 10 months ago. His son, whom I have never met and do not know, is the shooter in this case. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and died in this confrontation.

Upon taking the case, my office began gathering the array of materials one normally gathers. My Chief Victim Assistant, Tammy Horlock, talked several times with Mr Arbery’s family; I spoke to the mother once; Senior ADA Michelle McIntire was monitoring the collection of information through Capt. Tom Jump GPD. We had told the family it would take a month to 6 weeks to get the autopsy report. They apparently did not believe us. Note: Ms McIntire in my office received the autopsy April 2nd. I know they called the Attorney General Office sometime during this time.

My son works as an Assistant District Attorney for Jackie Johnson. Unknown to Jackie and me until about 3-4 weeks ago, he had handled a previous felony probation revocation and pleading Ahmaud Arbery to a felony in her Glynn County Office.

A local ‘rabble rouser’ has taken up this cause and begun publishing wild and factually incorrect and legally wrong accusations on Facebook and other social media formats calling for marches and physical affronts be made against the McMichaels at their homes, and my son’s home in Brunswick etc.. . To date I have seen no direct connection between the ‘rouser’ and the family other than their increased calls for my office to be removed, that I must be biased.

This family are not strangers to the local criminal justice system. From best we can tell, Ahmauds older brother has gone to prison in the past and is currently in the Glynn jail, without bond, awaiting new felony prosecution. It also appears a cousin has been prosecuted by DA Johnson’s office. Ahmaud, the deceased, had a juvenile and adult felony record.

In that regard, given the connection between myself and my son, and my son having worked with Greg McMichael for several years, and now known that he and Greg McMichael both helped with the previous prosecution of Arbery; I believe it is in the best interest of justice to recuse both myself and my office from this particular investigation.

In doing so I request another District Attorney be appointed to review the file and give advice to the Glynn County Police Department and determine whether there is anything justifying a presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.

I believe we have the majority of the information at our office. There is a decent cell phone video of the entire shooting incident, also video of Arbery burglarizing a home immediately preceding the chase and confrontation. We have a witness list and have done research we would include with the file to be available for the new prosecutor’s use if desired.

Thank you for your help in this matter

George E Barnhill

District Attorney

Waycross Judicial Circuit”

[Trump.Deplorable #182] He wrote two letters, his CYA letter in Feb

Continuous ham-fisted lying will not help you. Neither will claims of incompetence. What you call the "CYA letter in FEB", starts,

"My office received the Arbery autopsy report [dated 4/1/2020] yesterday and have reviewed it yesterday and this morning. We were waiting on this important evidentiary article before finalizing our opinions.

This official letter is not from February as you claim, and as anyone can readily discern. It is from 3 April 2020.

By your demented reading, DA Barnhill, in a CYA letter of February, referenced the autopsy report of 1 APRIL 2020 as being dated "yesterday."

The autopsy report of 1 April 2020 was received in the office of George Barnhill on 2 April 2020. The cited "yesterday" is 2 April 2020.

This OFFICIAL correspondence appears on the LETTERHEAD of OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, WAYCROSS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.

It's not an E-MAIL. It remains the only relevant LETTER being quoted.

[Trump.Deplorable #182] And next time, actually read the Barnhill memos, instead of falsely accusing me of writing them.

Next time take your own advice and you will not claim an E-Mail is a letter, or that a letter of April 3rd is from February. Additionally, next time you might try this crap on someone of your same limited abilities. A man's got to know his limitations.

Now you are saying the Medical Examiner lied as well?
According to the ME, Arbery had gray athletic shoes on. That is exactly what he wrote.
I did not write that

Absent a link to the original source, your claims are nothing.

Please identify your source and provide a link to the autopsy report for claim of direct knowledge of what is written in the report.

Would you be quoting a report of Glynn County coroner’s office of 24 Feb. 2020?

or would you be quoting an autopsy report of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner Edmund Donoghue, the Regional Medical Examiner in Savannah, of 1 April 2020, released by the GBI 11 May 2020?

It appears you are saying the Medical Examiner was lying, and making believe I said any such thing. Of course, you are invited to quote me saying the Medical Examiner lied, if you can locate any such statement. I would surmise that of his own knowledge, GBI Medical Examiner Edmund Donoghue has no earthly idea what shoes were on Arbery's feet when he was shot. The camera that took the video recorded what it saw at the time of the event.

As for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in a letter of May 11, 2020, Director D. Victor Reynolds, Georgia Bureau of Investigation stated,

Unknown and undisclosed to the Attorney General, however, Mr. Barnhill had already provided an opinion to the Glynn County Police Department on February 24, 2020, that he did not see grounds for the arrest of any of the individuals involved in Mr. Arbery's death.

That is some job of investigating, approximately equaling your own. The event occurred on February 23, 2020 in Brunswick County. On February 24, 2020 the assigned prosecutor was Jackie Johnson, the district Attorney of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. On February 24, 2020, the Waycross District Attorney had nothing to do with the case, and no jurisdiction in the case. On February 27, 2020 DA Jackie Johnson of Brunswick reported a conflict in her office and requested the appointment of another prosecutor. That prosecutor would be, future tense, George Barnhill, 80 miles distant in Waycross.

This is what happened when the GBI went on a mission, rather than an investigation.

Trump.Deplorable ignorant nonsense at #183:

To: woodpusher
Barnhill’s recusal letter is below:
“Dear Ms Crittendon and McGowan:
Thank you again for emailing back. This is a case without any law enforcement warrants. I agreed to take the file from Jackie Johnson, the District Attorney in Glynn County, for review to see if it justified and arrest and/or presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.
Greg McMichael, a party/ witness in the matter, retired from law enforcement then worked at her office as an investigator for several years up until re-retiring about 10 months ago. His son, whom I have never met and do not know, is the shooter in this case. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and died in this confrontation.
[snip]

Your ignorant nonsense is apparently cut and pasted from a third-hand source:

https://www.wistv.com/2020/05/08/gbi-releases-new-details-after-father-son-charged-with-murder-ahmaud-arbery/

WTOC reached out to Barnhill on Wednesday, May 6. He said he had no comment at this time.
Barnhill’s recusal letter is below:
"Dear Ms Crittendon and McGowan:
Thank you again for emailing back. This is a case without any law enforcement warrants. I agreed to take the file from Jackie Johnson, the District Attorney in Glynn County, for review to see if it justified and arrest and/or presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.

This is what happens when one is too lazy and incompetent to make an effort find the original source and look at a copy of the original document, which it is painfully obvious, you failed to do.

Looking at the actual document, Stevie Wonder could see that it is an E-MAIL and NOT A LETTER. My source is the Attorney General D. Victor Reynolds at the Georgia Department of Law. Yours is WISTV which cites WTOC which got its information from god knows where. But it must be a letter. You found a third-hand source on the internet that said it was a letter.

https://law.georgia.gov/document/document/gbirequestletter-prosecutorialmisconduct-arberypdf/download

From: George E Barnhill
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 8:42 PM
To: Blair McGowan; Karen Crittendon
Cc: Tom Jump; Alexander Markowich; Michelle McIntire; Jackie Johnson
Subject: Glynn County Shooting, Greg and Travis McMichael

______________________________________________________________ CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click
links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is
safe.___________________________________________________________

Ref: Feb 23rd 2020 Shooting in Glynn County

Involving: Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael, and Ahmuad Arbery

Requesting Appointment of a 2nd Conflict District Attorney

Dear Ms Crittendon and McGowan:

Thank you again for emailing back. This is a case without any law enforcement warrants. I agreed to take the file from Jackie Johnson, the District Attorney in Glynn County, for review to see if it justified and arrest and/or presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.

Greg McMichael, a party/ witness in the matter, retired from law enforcement then worked at her office as an investigator for several years up until re-retiring about 10 months ago. His son, whom I have never met and do not know, is the shooter in this case. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and died in this confrontation.

Upon taking the case, my office began gathering the array of materials one normally gathers. My Chief Victim Assistant, Tammy Horlock, talked several times with Mr Arbery's family; I spoke to the mother once; Senior ADA Michelle McIntire was monitoring the collection of information through Capt. Tom Jump GPD. We had told the family it would take a month to 6 weeks to get the autopsy report. They apparently did not believe us. Note: Ms McIntire in my office received the autopsy April 2nd. I know they called the Attorney General Office sometime during this time .

My son works as an Assistant District Attorney for Jackie Johnson. Unknown to Jackie and me until about 3-4 weeks ago, he had handled a previous felony probation revocation and pleading Ahmaud Arbery to a felony in her Glynn County Office.

A local 'rabble rouser' has taken up this cause and begun publishing wild and factually incorrect and legally wrong accusations on Facebook and other social media formats calling for marches and physical affronts be made against the McMichaels at their homes, and my son's home in Brunswick etc.. . To date I have seen no direct connection between the 'rouser' and the family other than their increased calls for my office to be removed, that I must be biased.

This family are not strangers to the local criminal justice system. From best we can tell, Ahmauds older brother has gone to prison in the past and is currently in the Glynn jail, without bond, awaiting new felony prosecution. It also appears a cousin has been prosecuted by DA Johnson's office. Ahmaud, the deceased, had a juvenile and adult felony record.

In that regard, given the connection between myself and my son, and my son having worked with Greg McMichael for several years, and now known that he and Greg McMichael both helped with the previous prosecution of Arbery; I believe it is in the best interest of justice to recuse both myself and my office from this particular investigation.

In doing so I request another District Attorney be appointed to review the file and give advice to the Glynn County Police Department and determine whether there is anything justifying a presentation to a Glynn County Grand Jury.

I believe we have the majority of the information at our office. There is a decent cell phone video of the entire shooting incident, also video of Arbery burglarizing a home immediately preceding the chase and confrontation. We have a witness list and have done research we would include with the file to be available for the new prosecutor's use if desired.

Thank you for your help in this matter

George E Barnhill
District Attorney
Waycross Judicial Circuit

306 Albany Avenue
Waycross GA 31501

office ph 912 287-4395
office FAX 912 287 4399
my email gebarnhill(a)gapac.org

if I am not available ask for Michell

As DA Barnhill wrote in his E-MAIL:,

Greg McMichael, a party/ witness in the matter, retired from law enforcement then worked at her office as an investigator for several years up until re-retiring about 10 months ago. His son, whom I have never met and do not know, is the shooter in this case.

And DA Barnhill wrote in his E-MAIL,

We had told the family it would take a month to 6 weeks to get the autopsy report. They apparently did not believe us. Note: Ms McIntire in my office received the autopsy April 2nd. I know they called the Attorney General Office sometime during this time .

And DA Barnhill wrote in his E-MAIL,

A local 'rabble rouser' has taken up this cause and begun publishing wild and factually incorrect and legally wrong accusations on Facebook and other social media formats calling for marches and physical affronts be made against the McMichaels at their homes, and my son's home in Brunswick etc... To date I have seen no direct connection between the 'rouser' and the family other than their increased calls for my office to be removed, that I must be biased.
This family are not strangers to the local criminal justice system. From best we can tell, Ahmauds older brother has gone to prison in the past and is currently in the Glynn jail, without bond, awaiting new felony prosecution. It also appears a cousin has been prosecuted by DA Johnson's office. Ahmaud, the deceased, had a juvenile and adult felony record.
In that regard, given the connection between myself and my son, and my son having worked with Greg McMichael for several years, and now known that he and Greg McMichael both helped with the previous prosecution of Arbery; I believe it is in the best interest of justice to recuse both myself and my office from this particular investigation.

The E-MAIL does not admit a conflict of interest.

The current DA will know first hand, and be very familiar with, the investigator she uses to present this case. They will have discussed this case in detail.

An email vs a letter are you really a phsychopath? So what? Doesn’t matter

He admitted conflict and that is why he recused himself

He walked it all back, the guy is toast, he knows it, so he a wrote a “please don’t hurt me letter” or email or smoke signal or text or whatever it doesn’t matter.

You have a lot of free time

Barnhill is an idiot, he wrote how he does not have a conflict in the first letter/email, then he recuses himself after he explains his conflict in detail in the second letter/email/text/smoke signal/etc. Its over for him.

He is under investigation

If you believe he is innocent, present your evidence to the GBI, not me. Because I really don’t care.

LOL Yea he was out jogging in those shorts and that footwear stopping off at an house where a rash of robberies have happened and which fitted his description and was on a jog 12 miles away from his house.

The homeowner testified nothing has ever been stolen from the house. The GBI agent testified there have been no reported crimes in the neighborhood.