William “Marc” Wilson was acquitted on the other charges, including felony murder, which carried with it a potential life prison sentence. He is set to be sentenced Tuesday.
“If you put me in Marc’s shoes, there’s no way that I would've been prosecuted,” Wilson’s cousin, Chance Pridgen, who is white, told Yahoo News. “Odds are I would've been given a medal — probably gotten a parade in my name. It’s unreal how he was treated just because he’s a little bit more tan than I am.”
Prosecutors argued that Wilson did not need to fire his weapon, while the defense contends that he exercised legal self-defense under the state’s “stand your ground” law. Wilson’s lead attorney was even blunter. Francys Johnson, a former president of the Georgia NAACP, said his legal team was tasked to stop a“Today this jury spoke as the voice of this community and said that Marc Wilson is no murderer,” Johnson said following the verdict. “They’ve always known that, and now this jury has spoken.”
Neither Johnson nor the Ogeechee District Attorney’s Office responded to requests for comment from Yahoo News.who has been working as a liaison between the Statesboro community and Wilson’s legal team, says the facts of the case were on the defendant’s side. The conflicting stories of the teens who were in the truck the night of the incident have also come into question. The teens claim they never yelled racial slurs that night, but admit that they had been drinking while driving around. At least one of the teens, 18-year-old Luke Harry Conley, was later charged with misdemeanor obstruction of justice for withholding information.
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