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Lawyer For Arbery Shooting Suspect: 'This Is Not Some Sort Of Hate Crime'

Lawyers for Gregory McMichael, one of the two men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, said the facts of the case "can not be shoehorned into a narrative that's being told so far."

Attorneys for one of the shooting suspects in the Ahmaud Arbery case said they believe they have uncovered enough information to convince a judge to free their client before the start of his murder trial.

"We do. We do," Franklin Hogue, one of the lawyers for Gregory McMichael said Friday when asked if he thought they had enough evidence to get him out of jail.

"We have to convince a judge to set him a

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