Key trial issue: Why did driver plow into counterprotesters?
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November 30, 2018
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.
Prosecutor Nina-Alice Antony told the jury tha...
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