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A jury found James Alex Fields Jr. guilty of first-degree murder on Friday for the murder of Heather Heyer at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fields hit his car in a group of counter-promoters at a rally, injuring dozens of people and killing Heyer.
A jury sentences Fields for several counts of having maliciously wounded and left the scene of the accident. . The rally was organized by a group that was protesting against moving a statue of Robert E. Lee on campus. According to the report of the national public radio, the jury deliberated several hours before delivering its verdict. A group of counter-protesters provoked sudden outbreaks between the groups and ultimately led to the vehicle falling into the crowd.
While Attorney Nina-Alice Antony presented Fields as an "angry white nationalist" full of hatred, his defense attorney, John Hill, said that he, 21, was acting in self-defense.
Antony painted pictures of the authorities who closed the Unite the Right rally and the Fields drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of unsuspecting protesters who were still waiting. She spoke of flying body in the air, as a result of an intentional act hateful and violent. And during the trial, Antony published a meme, Fields, published three months earlier on social media, describing the bodies of protesters agitated after a car destroyed them.
Hill, the defender, said his client was "scared to death". He drove his car sporadically, fearing that crowds of people would attack him during the violent clashes in the street.
Heyer was a 32-year-old paralegal who allegedly attended his first protest, according to this report. One of Heyer's friends at the rally, Marcus Martin, recalled the scene that day in Charlottesville and the NPR reporter had to dictate his conversation with a shaken Martin.
"He could barely speak for a moment after becoming an emotional speech.
Fields lived in Ohio with his mother and drove all night to be part of the rally. death
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