Thanks for the link, and I took some time to look through a few articles. He was fined something like a half million dollars with a life sentence + the 419 years.
That makes this lawsuit even weirder for me - how would he ever be able to pay the court judgement and somehow profit from a book deal? Bogus lawsuit just seems designed to keep drawing attention to the case. At the same time, I have to give the benefit of a doubt to a grieving mother, I’ve never lost a child, nor can I even imagine what she went through.
“419 years.”
Fields got credit for time served.
He may only have to do 417 years after he dies.
I have not seen the lawsuit, but here are two guesses: 1) The lawyer is a SJW working on contingency, and is involved as an act of self-promotion. 2) There are additional defendants that the plaintiff hopes can be blackmailed into “settling” to avoid negative publicity. Fields’ car insurance company? “Right-wing” organizers and promoters of the protest?
The City, Terry MacAuliffe, and the State Police all had a hand in creating the circumstances that led to the death and injuries, but somehow I doubt this plaintiff is going to argue that.