Arbery murder: Life term, parole?

Brunswick (US): Jurors have convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighbourhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

The jury Wednesday deliberated for about 10 hours before convicting Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbou r William Roddie Bryan, who all face minimum sentences of life in prison. It is up to the judge to decide whether that comes with or without the possibility of parole.

Though prosecutors did not argue that racism motivated the killing, federal authorities have charged them with hate crimes, alleging that they chased and killed Arbery because he was Black. That case is scheduled to go to trial in February.

The disproportionately white jury received the case around midday Tuesday.

Soon after returning to court Wednesday morning, the jury sent a note to the judge asking to view two versions of the shooting video the original and one that investigators enhanced to reduce shadows three times ap iece. -(AP)