James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville car attack

[George II]

Source: Washington Post

December 11 at 12:23 PM

CHARLOTTESVILLE — James A. Fields Jr., the avowed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white-supremacists rally, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury Tuesday after a trial that offered an unsparing view of the physical and emotional ruin he caused in this city with a burst of vehicular rage 16 month ago.

As he had throughout his two-week trial, Fields, 21, sat impassively at the defendant’s table, clad in a powder blue sweater, as the jury delivered its punishment at 12:20 p.m. after about four hours of deliberations that began Monday: life for first-degree murder; 70 years for each of five counts of aggravated malicious wounding; 20 years for each of three counts of malicious wounding; and nine years for leaving the scene of a fatal crash.

His overall sentence: life plus 419 years and $480,000 in fines.

The same jury of seven women and five men convicted Fields of those 10 offenses Friday in Charlottesville Circuit Court. In Virginia, trial juries determine what penalties should be meted out within sentencing ranges dictated by law. Judge Richard E. Moore, who said he will formally sentence Fields on March 29, can impose a lesser punishment than the jurors called for but is not allowed to increase the sentences.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/james-a-fields-jr-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-in-charlottesville-car-attack/2018/12/11/8b205a90-fcc8-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?utm_term=.2f094d2584c3

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If he stays healthy, he'll spend 60-70 years doing hard time.

[Turbineguy]

1. Is Trump paying his legal bills and fine?

[George II]

4. Good point, he said he'd pay legal bills for those who "knock the crap" out of his enemies.

[smb]

18. LOL -- il Doofus Doesn't Even Pay HIS OWN Bills nt

[ck4829]

2. Scared for your life now, scumbag?

[Johnyawl]

9. yeah, he'll get to spend the rest of his life...

...huddled in one corner of the prison with the rest of the aryan brotherhood.

[ck4829]

11. He'll be passed around as currency for them

[Hortensis]

15. Who knows, perhaps the authorities at that prison

are too decent and progressive to maintain this horror as you're imagining.

[smb]

19. They May Have To Keep Him In Solitary

If so, it would serve him right, seeing as how unfit he is for human company.

[underpants]

3. Now that's throwing him UNDER the prison

Thanks for the more full report.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211537857

[janterry]

5. all over at age 21

It's all very sad.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. No, it was over at age 32.

That's how old Heather Heyer was when this convict ran her down.

Now he can grow old and die in prison.

[janterry]

12. It is my nature to feel bad for both

[yardwork]

27. I agree with you. This troubled man was encouraged to hate.

He was once a little boy. Things could have gone differently, and Heather Heyer would still be alive.

This is a just sentence but the whole thing is very sad.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. Even Heather's mother commented on how "messed up" he was

She still thinks he belongs in prison, but acknowledged that he has deep psychological problems.

[Sneederbunk]

6. He needs to carefully pick his prison gang.

[Johnyawl]

10. He's already picked it.

see post #7

[brooklynite]

7. Plenty of Aryan Nations types to hang out with...

[rsdsharp]

13. Juries don't sentence. Courts do.

This was a sentence recommendation by the jury.

"Judge Richard E. Moore, who said he will formally sentence Fields on March 29, can impose a lesser punishment than the jurors called for but is not allowed to increase the sentences."

[Lucky Luciano]

14. He should be sent to Florence SuperMax for this kind of terrorism. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. That's a Federal prison. He was tried for a violation of Virginia law.

He could end up in Red Onion State Prison or Wallens Ridge State Prison or some place like that.

[Lucky Luciano]

21. Yes...but why no terrorism charges? those would be federal.

[atreides1]

23. The Federal trial is next!!!

In the federal case, he's looking at hate crime charges and the possibility of the death penalty!

I guess he should have played X-Box in his mom's basement on that weekend...

[jmowreader]

24. Sentencing him to anything enhances his "cause"

If they execute him, he becomes a martyr.

If they lock him up for the rest of his life, he becomes a political prisoner.

We COULD hand him over to MS-13 but that would be wrong in so many ways.

I guess the only thing we can do is accept that he's going to be a "political prisoner" for the rest of his life, and make him Terry Nichols' next-door neighbor in Florence, Colorado.

[Farmer-Rick]

22. Good to know, I was worried Traitor Trump would pardon him

But since it was Virginia law he was convicted on, The Traitor in Chief can't help his Nazi friend out of jail.

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. I'd be surprised if that lowlife had the $480 part of the fine.

I'd be willing to bet his net worth is much closer to the zeroes part of the figure. His ilk is rarely in the "high income potential" segment of the population.

I am ambivalent about the sentence duration, though. While part of me hopes he lives a really long time and "enjoys" the camaraderie of prison life for many, many yeas, I think it's a shame that decent people are going to have to pay for his caging and upkeep for decades.

[Solly Mack]

17. Good

[turbinetree]

25. "protective custody"...........................

[secondwind]

26. Be careful not to drop the soap, you asshole!!

[oldlibdem]

28. good!

I hope he spends most of it in solitare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. K&R