SAVANNAH, Ga. — Three years after a former Georgia district attorney was indicted on charges alleging she interfered with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the case's slow ...

Johnson’s attorney, Brian Steel, had challenged the validity of the charge, which was predicated on an oath she swore in 2010 after being appointed by then-Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Crime & Public Safety Veteran prosecutor from Ahmaud Arbery case gets the boot from new Cobb County DA Former ‘attorney of the year’ was told her services were no longer needed, she says.

At the time Arbery was killed, Johnson had served for a decade as district attorney for southeast Georgia's Brunswick Judicial Circuit. Greg McMichael worked in her office as an investigator ...

Johnson's defense attorneys also asked the judge for a directed verdict on the charge that Johnson violated her oath of office, a felony punishable by one to five years in prison. Former Brunswick ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A former prosecutor took the witness stand Tuesday to deny charges that she abused her power to protect the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, insisting she ...

Arbery was gunned down while jogging through a neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia in 2020. Johnson showed little emotion as attorneys debated several motions during Wednesday’s pre-trial hearing.

Georgia's attorney general has requested that the U.S. Department of Justice conduct an investigation into the handling of the Ahmaud Arbery case."We are committed to a complete and transparent ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he doesn't want "any more Black pastors" in the courtroom.

As for Johnson’s recommendation in 2020 that the attorney general replace her with another prosecutor who concluded Arbery’s killing was justified, Porter said: “I don’t think that’s a ...

As for Johnson's recommendation in 2020 that the attorney general replace her with another prosecutor who concluded Arbery's killing was justified, Porter said: "I don't think that's a violation ...

Former Brunswick Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson wipes tears after she testified about a chance meeting with Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of slain jogger Ahmaud Arbery, Tuesday, Feb. 4 ...