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On Monday, US District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood rejected Travis McMichael’s plea deal from an agreement preceding his federal trial.

In an earlier trial, McMichael agreed to plead guilty for one hate crime — interference with rights — in exchange for prosecutors placing him in federal prison for 30 years rather than public.

To give more detail about the agreement, McMichaels would have been transported from state prison to federal prison. After completing the federal sentence, he would finish his life in prison sentence in Georgia.

Judge Godbey Wood, as well as the Arbery family, was opposed to the deal.

Judge Godbey Wood was expected to rule over McMichael’s father, Gregory McMichael’s same plea deal. After the rejection of Travis McMichael’s deal, attorneys asked for more time to determine whether to change their pleas to guilty.

The Arbery family has expressed strong opposition to the plea deal, urging Wood not to accept the plea.

“Please listen to me,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother told the judge. “Granting these men their preferred conditions of confinement would defeat me. It gives them one last chance to spit in my face after murdering my son.”

Cooper-Jones’ attorney, S. Lee Merritt, called federal prison “a country club compared to state prison” noting that these institutions were less populated, had better funding, and are “generally more accommodating” than state facilities.

The next hearing will be on Friday.