Key trial issue: Why did driver plow into counterprotesters?

[Victoria33]

https://www.greensboro.com/ap/us_wo...cle_c8e26816-562e-5bab-ba76-8877fcb883c6.html

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — No one disputes James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year, killing a woman and injuring dozens more.

The only question, jurors were told Thursday, is why did he do it?

During opening statements at his murder trial, prosecutors and defense lawyers painted two starkly different pictures of what prompted Fields — a 21-year-old reputed Hitler admirer — to drive his gray Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.

This trial just began. I hope justice prevails and I feel terrible for the tragedy of the woman who did lose her life.

 

[Theo520]

I expect this will not end well. A very unlikeable guy will have a case that he was not intentionally trying to mow down protestors.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

Given the character of the guy in question, the fact that he is some shade of neo-Nazi, and the fact that he has had multiple altercations with his own mother before which were potentially violent, my money is on the fact that it was intentional.