In this special episode of the podcast, we break with our usual format of introducing Ethy Award nominees to discuss the recent guilty verdicts for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.  In particular, Sean Carter explains in detail the crimes for which the defendants were convicted and why their lawyer's efforts to argue self-defense ultimately failed.

Moreover, Sean gives a preview of the federal hate crime trial against these same defendants in February.  Finally, he explains his (surprising) opposition to the prosecution of the former DA in this case for her failure to originally bring charges.

And for you legal ethics lovers, we have a special treat because this entire case came about as a result of an ethical lapse by a previous unknown Georgia criminal defense lawyer.

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