(CNN) Federal prosecutors asked Ahmaud Arbery's mother if she would consider a plea deal for her son's killers, and she declined, her attorney said Friday, shortly before the three men were sentenced in a Glynn County, Georgia, court. The judge on Friday sentenced Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael to life in prison without the possibility of parole and Bryan to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Bryan will be eligible for parole under Georgia law only after he has served 30 years in prison because he was convicted of serious violent felonies. The federal agreement would have put the men in federal prison for 30 years, attorney S. Lee Merritt said, in addition to the time the judge handed down. "She rejected that offer because we believe that today the state will move forward with life sentences without the possibility of parole, and we think that's the appropriate sentence," Merritt told CNN earlier Friday, standing beside Wanda Cooper-Jones.

Source: CNN January 08, 2022 00:18 UTC