James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville car attack
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 defendants 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
If he stays healthy, he'll spend 60-70 years doing hard time.
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...huddled in one corner of the prison with the rest of the aryan brotherhood.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are too decent and progressive to maintain this horror as you're imagining.
smb
(3,471 posts)If so, it would serve him right, seeing as how unfit he is for human company.
underpants
(182,824 posts)Thanks for the more full report.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211537857
janterry
(4,429 posts)It's all very sad.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,344 posts)That's how old Heather Heyer was when this convict ran her down.
Now he can grow old and die in prison.
janterry
(4,429 posts)yardwork
(61,622 posts)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
(20,192 posts)She still thinks he belongs in prison, but acknowledged that he has deep psychological problems.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)see post #7
brooklynite
(94,585 posts)rsdsharp
(9,182 posts)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
(11,257 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,465 posts)He could end up in Red Onion State Prison or Wallens Ridge State Prison or some place like that.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)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
(50,559 posts)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
(10,175 posts)But since it was Virginia law he was convicted on, The Traitor in Chief can't help his Nazi friend out of jail.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)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
(90,769 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)oldlibdem
(330 posts)I hope he spends most of it in solitare