The State rested their case Monday in the Jackie Johnson trial. Johnson is the former Brunswick district attorney accused of meddling in the Ahmaud Arbery murder investigation. Monday a judge granted the Defense’s motion for directed verdict of acquittal for count 2 of Jackie Johnson’s indictment.

Frankly, this is a decision I didn’t want to make,” the judge told attorneys in the courtroom Wednesday. But he said he felt the defense’s challenge to the indictment against the former Glynn County DA “needs to be granted.

Jackie Johnson testified she removed herself from the case after learning the shooting involved the son of Greg McMichael, a former investigator for her office.

Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson cleared of legal wrongdoing in the investigation of Ahmaud Arbery's murder following a judge dismissing two charges against her near the end of her Glynn County trial.

Jones, told First Coast News she's "in shock," while Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, said the judge's decision is "devastating."

The trial against a former Georgia prosecutor accused of using her position to shield from immediate arrest the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery came to an abrupt end Wednesday morning. The judge overseeing the case announced from the bench that he would grant a special demurrer to dismiss the final remaining count against former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson.