CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— A Virginia state judge on July 15 sentenced a self-professed neo-Nazi to a second life prison term for killing a demonstrator when he drove his car into a crowd during protests and counter-protests surrounding the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville two years ago.
Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore sentenced James Fields, 22, to life plus 419 years, as recommended by the jury that found him guilty in December 2018 of murder, plus eight counts of malicious wounding and a hit-and-run offense.
