Arbery background ruled off limits, but spilled on Glynn County Court page

The second day of jury selection in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery continued Tuesday with jurors questioned about court filings on the Glynn County Court’s website that include documents ruled inadmissible revealing Arbery’s brushes with the law and his mental health history.

At least two jurors admitted Tuesday accessing some of the court documents that can be found on links after clicking instructions for the 1,000 jurors summoned for the high-profile case.

Jury selection continued Tuesday with Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley calling for the pace to pick up. Meanwhile, jurors faced more questions about their thoughts on the fairness of the criminal justice system, whether they’ve read court documents and if they had already formed an opinion about the guilt or innocence of the three accused murderers Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan in the February 2020 killing of Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man out for a jog.

Jurors accessing Arbery’s mental health and criminal records that have already been disallowed in the trial could’ve become a turning point so it’s critical it was caught early enough to weed out potential jurors who read the information, Georgia Southern University criminal justice professor Chad Posick said.

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