He is essentially a political prisoner. The entire City or Charlottsville and State of Virginia has sought to make an example of the participants in the rally, and he is the poster child.
To carry their narrative, they needed him to be guilty of murder, and so murder it is.
A few facts:
- Fields was initially charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of hit and run.
- These were upgraded to First Degree Murder (and more counts of wounding) before the trial.
- The verdict followed a week of testimony and more than seven hours of deliberations.
- Joshua Matthews described the moments before Fields plowed into the counterprotesters on August 12, 2017. Fields appeared "calm and normal," Matthews testified, adding "maybe he seemed a little scared."
- His testimony was largely consistent with other defense witnesses, who told the court that Fields didn't appear angry or agitated before he got behind the wheel of his car.
- The Feds decided to try him too. (This is the new thing, same as Paul Manafort. A sure sign of "political prosecution")
- He ended up pleading guilty to the hate crime charges, after initially pleading "not guilty" to them. The Death Penalty (for the Federal hate crime charges) was taken off the table as part of this plea bargain.
- He's extremely mentally ill.
- According to Fields' high school history teacher, Derek Weimer, Fields was prescribed an antipsychotic as anger management medication after he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Fields told a judge that he was receiving treatment for bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Fields grew up with his mother Samantha Bloom, a paraplegic, in Florence, Kentucky.
- His mom, Bloom, was also a f*c*ed up mess
- Fields' father was killed in a car crash on December 5, 1996, five months before he was born.[7][10] Bloom's parents died in a murder-suicide when she was 16 on August 21, 1984 when Bloom's father, 42-year-old self-employed contractor Marvin, killed his 37-year-old ex-wife Judy and himself
- There is no evidence that Fields was affiliated with any of the groups assembled that day.
- His car was going 28 MPH when it hit the back of a Toyota stopped in the street. It is the Toyota which acclerated from zero to 17mph in miliseconds that injured so many people.
- He was represented by a female lawyer from a small local law firm, doing pro-bono work for the public defenders office.
For sure, he was a twisted guy with a retard's fixation on Hitler. That's never going to be a good basis for the defense to work from.
A person died, and he was the agent of it, so He probably deserved punishment, but the first-degree charge seems way over the top.
They piled on the retard and gave him the longest sentence since -- Timothy McVeigh.