Fields to appeal state conviction in Charlottesville car attack

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Fields to appeal state conviction in Charlottesville car attack
From staff reports Dec 12, 2019 Updated 16 hrs ago

James Alex Fields Jr. plans to appeal the entirety of his state conviction for driving his car into a crowd of counterprotesters after the 2017 Unite the Right rally.

Fields’ attorney filed a notice of appeal on Monday, according to court records.

Fields was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years on the charges in Charlottesville Circuit Court in June.
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Fields already is serving multiple life sentences after accepting a plea agreement in his federal hate crimes case. He pleaded guilty to 29 hate crime counts.

He was sentenced to 29 life sentences in the federal case, 28 of which are running concurrently.

Because he accepted a plea agreement, Fields' options for appealing the federal sentence are more limited. The state sentence will run consecutively to his federal sentence.

According to the notice of appeal, Fields is currently being held in a federal prison in West Virginia.

James Fields Jr. to appeal state court convictions in Charlottesville car attack
Fields was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years by state court in July
By CD News Staff | 12/12/2019

[TheRealNorth]

1. Is he thinking he's going to get a pardon from Trump?

If the state conviction was somehow overturned.

[Yonnie3]

2. We have been wondering since we heard about this yesterday.

Not that the orange baboon anus would give him a pardon, but that the murderer Fields believes it is a possibility.

Another theory that has been discussed here is that if he is successful, he would move from incarceration in a Virginia facility to a Federal facility. Perhaps that would be easier time.

It's all idle speculation on our part in Charlottesville.

We would very much like to be done hearing about Fields.