NEW: Driver in deadly car attack at Charlottesville white nationalist rally, which killed Heather Heyer, given additional sentence of life plus 419 years on state charges. A judge previously sentenced him to life in June on federal charges.
into a group of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, killing one and injuring dozens, was given a second life sentence Monday on state charges.James Alex Fields Jr. was given the additional sentence of life plus 419 years on Monday by Judge Richard Moore after he was convicted by a Virginia jury in December,
. The sentence was recommended by the jury, but state law allowed the judge to go lower than their recommendation if he saw fit. The sentence Monday is largely symbolic considering the previous life sentence, NBC Washington reports.following the rally. The"Unite the Right" protesters were there in part to fight the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.Star Peterson, one of the injured, had to undergo five surgeries on her right leg and uses a wheelchair and cane.
The 30th charge, which included a possible death sentence, was dropped. U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed and permitted prosecutors not to seek the death penalty.
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