James Fields Sentenced to Life in Prison for Death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville

The New York Times ^ | June 28, 2019 | Mitch Smith

[FewsOrange]

James Fields Jr., the white supremacist who murdered a woman two summers ago when he steered a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., was sentenced Friday to life in federal prison.

Lawyers for Mr. Fields, 22, had pleaded for mercy, citing his difficult childhood and mental health problems. Prosecutors had sought the life sentence, arguing that Mr. Fields’s racist, anti-Semitic beliefs motivated the decision to attend the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and to attack counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.

“The defendant’s crimes were so horrendous — and the maiming of innocents so severe — that they outweigh any factors the defendant may argue form a basis for leniency,” federal prosecutors told the judge in a sentencing memo. “This is particularly true in light of the fact that he has demonstrated that he feels no remorse for his actions and continues to espouse his hateful ideology.”

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Mr. Fields was convicted separately in state court of first-degree murder in December, and jurors recommended a life sentence. A judge will decide in the coming weeks whether to accept that recommendation.

[Alberta's Child]

Of course John S Mosby said that he didn't actually hit her with his car. He hit the back end of another car and caused a chain reaction, and one of the subsequent cars hit her and caused her to have a heart attack.

She didn't exactly die of a "heart attack." I believe her cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest that resulted from blunt force trauma to her chest.

[dljordan]

“Well, a lot of this stuff is memory holed. Youtube probably will not allow this video to remain up. “

I’ve seen the videos and even more were offered to his ‘attorney’ but declined. I for one would like to adamantly virtue-signal that I am not a White Supremacist, Klansman, NAZI, Alt-Right, Southern Nationalist or any of those bad things.

[Kickass Conservative]

Does this mean that the next Democrat POTUS will be coming for my Dodge Challenger?

Since the Car has “TRUMP 45” Vanity License Plates on it I’ll probably get convicted of a Hate Crime too.

[x]

I’ve seen the videos

So where are they?

[Kickass Conservative]

POTUS Trump called him a Murderer before any facts came out.

Bad move, but it had nothing to do with the Conviction. Now, if Horizontal Harris called him a Murderer, he would have been executed by now.

[Balding_Eagle]

Sure, pal, like you know that.

See post #65 and get back to me.

[amigatec]

It fact looking at this again, the entire Memorial has been changed. It was created the day she supposedly died, but the date is now different.

[palmer]

Good to see a little common sense on the thread. I looked at the videos back in the day and they were damning.

[DiogenesLamp]

She didn't exactly die of a "heart attack." I believe her cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest that resulted from blunt force trauma to her chest.

I don't think the exact cause of death is the main point here. If John S Mosby is correct, the guy wasn't deliberately hitting a person, he was hitting the back of a vehicle with no knowledge that a person was two cars further down standing in front of a vehicle, and would be caught in the cascade collision.

Is this part correct, or does anyone know for sure? I had read they recovered her blood from his bumper, but that might have been wrong.

[DiogenesLamp]

I recall seeing a video as well, but my recollection is that I couldn't see anything of him clearly hitting her that I recall.

I would think that the video might still be available on something like Live Link or one of the more gritty-edgy video websites.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Who didn’t see the pictures of Antifa thugs carrying clubs.””

WHO? No democrats saw them, that’s for sure. Truthfully I didn’t see anyone carrying the famous Tiki torches either...but I understand there were some.

[DiogenesLamp]

Good to see a little common sense on the thread. I looked at the videos back in the day and they were damning.

Do you remember seeing a video of him striking her with his car? I remember seeing a video, but I don't remember seeing that happen, and she's a pretty big girl, so it would seem as if it should have been obvious.

[Eagles6]

Actually the police copter that crashed was assigned to watch over Terry McAuliffe's motorcade. Don't know if was anyway related to Charlottesville.

The original protests were southern heritage to save the statues.

They were hijacked by Aaron Kessler, agent provocateur.

He is a soros plant, former Occupy Wall Street rioter, sjw and soetoro supporter who, on election night did a 180 and became a Trump supporter and White Supremacist.

I have no doubt he is still on soros's payroll.

[Thank You Rush]

That’s the way I’ve always looked at it also - how could it be called MURDER?

[DiogenesLamp]

WHO? No democrats saw them, that’s for sure. Truthfully I didn’t see anyone carrying the famous Tiki torches either...but I understand there were some.

You must not watch the regular news liars propaganda channels. My recollection was that they spent days covering the Tiki torches thing.

Also they didn't mention that the guy that organized this whole thing was some sort of Obama campaign worker or something.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Had a leftist done this outside a Trump rally there is no reason to believe their penalty would have been less.’

you’re joking, right...?

[bankwalker]

I guarantee you the 4chan guys saved that video.

[grey_whiskers]

Troll.

[CodeToad]

Your comment is still moronic. You’re claiming the court acted on Trump’s statements without any proof. Only a dumb little liberal thinks that way.

[Fedora]

They were originally prosecuting it as second-degree murder; they changed the charge to first-degree about four months into the prosecution after a new video was introduced.