Jackie Johnson trial for misconduct in Arbery case [Video]

More than 200 potential jurors were summoned Tuesday to a Georgia courthouse for questioning about whether they can serve impartially in the trial of a former prosecutor accused of meddling with police as they investigated the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.Jackie Johnson served as district attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was chased by three white men in pickup trucks and fatally shot on a residential street. Johnson’s misconduct trial will be held in the same courthouse where Arbery’s assailants were convicted of murder in 2021.Senior Judge John R. Turner dismissed 15 potential jurors Tuesday after they were questioned individually in court and said they had already formed firm opinions about the case based on what they had seen in news reports and social media posts or heard from family members.More than 40 others were excused based on their written answers to a questionnaire asking if they held biases …