{"id":14275,"date":"2019-03-28T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2019-03-28T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:41:33","slug":"charlottesville-murderer-fields-pleads-guilty-to-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/03\/28\/charlottesville-murderer-fields-pleads-guilty-to-hate-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlottesville murderer Fields pleads guilty to hate crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US man jailed for murder after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has pleaded guilty to hate crimes at a court hearing.<\/p>\n

James Alex Fields, 25, a professed neo-Nazi, was convicted on 29 of 30 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty.<\/p>\n

Fields was sentenced last December to life in prison after driving his car into counter-protesters in 2017, killing one person and injuring dozens.<\/p>\n

He previously claimed he acted out of fear for his safety.<\/p>\n

Fields travelled around 500 miles (804km) from his home in Ohio to attend the Virginia rally.<\/p>\n

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Heather Heyer was killed after a car rammed into a crowd protesting at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The “Unite the Right” march was organised to protest against plans to remove a statue of General Robert E Lee, who fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.<\/p>\n

Counter-protesters turned out to oppose the rally and dozens of people were injured in violence that erupted.<\/p>\n

One, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when Fields drove at the crowd.<\/p>\n

Graphic video of the incident was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath, President Donald Trump was criticised for saying there had been “very fine people” on both sides in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

Fields’ trial continues.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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