7 hours ago · BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The case against a former Georgia district attorney charged with discouraging police from arresting the man who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 took a blow Thursday as a police supervisor testified that the accused prosecutor never obstructed her during the investigation.. Jackie Johnson was the chief prosecutor for coastal Glynn County …

7 hours ago · Jackie Johnson was the chief prosecutor for coastal Glynn County when Arbery was chased by white men in pickup trucks and fatally shot in a quiet subdivision nearly five years ago.

2 days ago · Jackie Johnson is also accused of slow-walking the prosecution of the three men who killed Arbery. In court on Tuesday, her defense team said that never happened. Johnson’s lead attorney, Brian ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson -- seen here at a December 2024 hearing -- is accused of violating her oath of office and obstructing or hindering a law ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson speaks at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. last month. She goes on trial Monday for interfering with the police investigation into the shooting ...

Nov 6, 2024 · Jury selection in the criminal misconduct trial of Jackie Johnson is scheduled to begin Jan. 21 in coastal Glynn County, according to an order by Senior Judge John R. Turner. He set a Dec. 11 hearing for attorneys to argue their final pretrial motions.

Dec 11, 2024 · Jackie Johnson spent a decade as the state’s top prosecutor for the coastal Brunswick Judicial Circuit. She came to court Wednesday as a defendant, charged with violating her oath of office and hindering police as they investigated Arbery’s death.

2 days ago · Former Brunswick Judicial District Attorney Jackie Johnson with her defense lawyer Brian Steel during the qualification of her trial in Glynn County Superior Court on charges of obstruction and ...

2 days ago · Johnson was the county's top prosecutor in 2020 when Arbery was killed. The 25-year-old Black man was fatally shot on Feb. 23, 2020, as he ran from armed white men in a pickup truck who wrongly ...

1 day ago · The public is finally learning specifics about former Brunswick-area district attorney Jackie Johnson’s decisions in the wake of Ahmaud Arbery’s death nearly five years ago. Arguments began in Johnson’s criminal trial on Tuesday. In opening arguments, the Georgia Attorney General’s office and Johnson’s criminal defense lawyers ...