12-15-2017, 04:42 PM
(08-13-2017, 06:13 AM)Duchess Wrote: The driver, James Fields (far left in glasses), marching with Vanguard America yesterday. Vanguard America is a racist right-wing group.
This was not an accident. This wasn't a person who was afraid and running away. This wasn't a person who accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake. This was a deliberate act of violence.
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Fields attended a preliminary hearing yesterday.
Prosecutors upped the charges against him from second-degree murder (which essentially means he should have known his actions could cause injury or death) to first-degree murder (which essentially means he intended to cause injury or death).
After hearing evidence in the case, Judge Robert Downer granted the Commonwealth’s motion to certify one felony count of hit and run, five felony counts of malicious wounding, three felony counts of aggravated malicious wounding and one felony count of first degree murder.
Heather Heyers' parents attended the hearing, as did the organizer of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
Refs:
http://wtvr.com/2017/12/14/james-fields-...-attack-1/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...court.html