[Mr Rogers]

No problem with him going to prison, but the term seems way out of proportion. From the US Department of Justice, looking at times served in state prisons:

“By offense type, the median time served was 13.4 years for murder, 2.2 years for violent crimes excluding murder, 17 months for drug trafficking, and 10 months for drug possession.”

13.4 years versus...419 sentenced? Politics, anyone? Why not “life”?

[Bonemaker]

“No problem with him going to prison...”

Does that apply to you too if you are trying to escape a homicidal mob?

[Jack Black]

He is essentially a political prisoner. The entire City or Charlottsville and State of Virginia has sought to make an example of the participants in the rally, and he is the poster child.

To carry their narrative, they needed him to be guilty of murder, and so murder it is.

A few facts:

• Fields was initially charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of hit and run.
• These were upgraded to First Degree Murder (and more counts of wounding) before the trial.
• The verdict followed a week of testimony and more than seven hours of deliberations.

• Joshua Matthews described the moments before Fields plowed into the counterprotesters on August 12, 2017. Fields appeared "calm and normal," Matthews testified, adding "maybe he seemed a little scared."
• His testimony was largely consistent with other defense witnesses, who told the court that Fields didn't appear angry or agitated before he got behind the wheel of his car.
• The Feds decided to try him too. (This is the new thing, same as Paul Manafort. A sure sign of "political prosecution")
• He ended up pleading guilty to the hate crime charges, after initially pleading "not guilty" to them. The Death Penalty (for the Federal hate crime charges) was taken off the table as part of this plea bargain.
• He's extremely mentally ill.
• According to Fields' high school history teacher, Derek Weimer, Fields was prescribed an antipsychotic as anger management medication after he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Fields told a judge that he was receiving treatment for bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Fields grew up with his mother Samantha Bloom, a paraplegic, in Florence, Kentucky.
• His mom, Bloom, was also a f*c*ed up mess
• Fields' father was killed in a car crash on December 5, 1996, five months before he was born.[7][10] Bloom's parents died in a murder-suicide when she was 16 on August 21, 1984 when Bloom's father, 42-year-old self-employed contractor Marvin, killed his 37-year-old ex-wife Judy and himself
• There is no evidence that Fields was affiliated with any of the groups assembled that day.
• His car was going 28 MPH when it hit the back of a Toyota stopped in the street. It is the Toyota which acclerated from zero to 17mph in miliseconds that injured so many people.
• He was represented by a female lawyer from a small local law firm, doing pro-bono work for the public defenders office.

For sure, he was a twisted guy with a retard's fixation on Hitler. That's never going to be a good basis for the defense to work from.

A person died, and he was the agent of it, so He probably deserved punishment, but the first-degree charge seems way over the top.

They piled on the retard and gave him the longest sentence since -- Timothy McVeigh.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

We don’t need guys like him. He poisons the media and the Left against legitimate conservatives.

Good riddance.

My very liberal neighbor has sign that says “Hate has not place here”.

Conservatives must say the same, but also specify who the haters are: commmunists/Marxists/progressives/socialist, class warfare advocates; racial extremists of all types; irrendentists of the Mexican type; imported Islamic hatemongers, anti-semites, Hamas/Fatah/Al Qaeda/ISIS fans like Omar and Tlaib; Castroites like AOC and Colin Crapinmyneck; media racists like Don Lemon and Joy Reid, etc.

America is Americans and future Americans who love this country. Not for those who want to “fundamentally transform it” into a Marxist shithole like Russia/SU, No. Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Venezuela, San Francisco/LA./Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and DeBlasio’s “New Yurk”.

[DiogenesLamp]

The message must be sent that accused racists are worse than Nazis and deserve not even ordinary justice, but instead, extra special "pour encourager les autres" justice.

13.4 years versus...419 sentenced? Politics, anyone? Why not “life”?

Life? Why not burn him alive on national television? That would really send the message about how much the Fed gov really hates racism!