Charlottesville fatal car ramming: Jury recommends life in prison for man who drove into counterprotesters at white nationalist rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A jury has recommended life in prison plus 419 years for a man convicted of murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last year.

The jury made its recommendation on Tuesday, a day after listening to emotional statements from the mother of a woman who was killed and from numerous people who were injured. James Alex Fields Jr. plowed into the counterprotesters during a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017.

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White nationalist rally to protest the removal of a Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue

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On Friday, the same jury convicted Fields of first-degree murder and other felonies, rejecting his lawyers' arguments that he had acted in self-defense.