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Jury recommends life in prison plus 419 years for man who killed Heather Heyer

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On Tuesday, a jury recommended life in prison plus 419 years for James A. Fields Jr., who has been convicted of first-degree murder for driving into a crowd during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On Tuesday, a jury recommended life in prison plus 419 years for James A. Fields Jr., who has been convicted of first-degree murder for driving into a crowd during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

  1. 11 Dec 2018

    "Darkness has tried to swallow us whole." Mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer speaks at sentencing hearing for James Alex Fields, who was convicted last week of first-degree murder and other charges.

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  2. 11 Dec 2018

    BREAKING: A jury recommends life in prison plus 419 years for a man convicted of murder for driving his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally last year.

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  3. 11 Dec 2018

    JUST IN: A jury recommends that the man who rammed his car into a crowd of people during the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville in 2017 should spend life in prison plus 419 years behind bars.

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  4. Avowed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. sentenced to life in prison in fatal Charlottesville car attack

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  5. 11 Dec 2018

    NEW: James A. Fields, the neo-Nazi who drove his car into a group of counter-protestors during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last year, was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years and $480,000 in fines, the AP reports

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  6. 11 Dec 2018

    Under the law, the jury, which convicted James Alex Fields Jr. last week of first-degree murder and nine other charges, can recommend from 20 years to life in prison on both that charge and each of five charges of aggravated malicious wounding.

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  7. 11 Dec 2018

    Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was just sentenced to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. In this video, the Charlottesville community reflects on its history and recovery since the August 2017 rally.

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  8. James Fields, who killed activist Heather Heyer when he drove a car into a counter-protest at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, faces up to life in prison.

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