On Friday, a Charlottesville jury found the man accused of driving a car into a crowd of people during the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in August 2017 guilty of one count of first-degree murder.
The prosecution submitted several pieces of evidence to rest its case, including text and phone conversations between Fields and his mother.
The final jurors were selected and sworn in Thursday.
The 28 jurors will report Thursday, then be narrowed down to a pool of 16
Jury selection began Monday for the trial of the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally in August 2017, injuring dozens and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Aug. 11 rally organizer Richard Spencer, among others, will not be allowed on Grounds for the next four years.
Cayden Dalton was arrested the morning after the Wertland Street Block Party on Aug. 26 and charged with misdemeanor assault, felony strangulation and felony abduction.
After recent off-Grounds crimes did not result in the issuance of timely warnings or community alerts, some students are asking what warrants a notification.
The reporting individual falsely claimed that he had been approached by two black male suspects and attacked by one.
A prosecutor in the federal case against the man accused of driving a car into counter-protesters at last year’s white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has retired from the Department of Justice and is leaving the case.
Charlottesville police identified the suspected perpetrator as Jowell Travis Legendre, a 29-year-old Louisa County resident.
A female victim reported a robbery and sexual assault Wednesday night, telling the University Police Department she was physically and sexually assaulted and that her wallet was stolen around 9:33 p.m., according to an alert sent to the U.Va. community.
Third-year College student Cayden Jacob Dalton is in custody at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
After an appeal to the Charlottesville Circuit Court Tuesday, Charlottesville resident Jeffrey Winder was fined $1 for assaulting Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler on Aug. 13, 2017, during a press conference.
This year’s iteration of the Wertland Street Block Party yielded only a single arrest, according to the Charlottesville Police Department.
The Charlottesville Police Department is investigating an assault on one of its officers Saturday evening at the Downtown Mall, according to a release issued Sunday night.
One was charged with disorderly conduct, one with trespassing and one with public intoxication
University Police Department officers made eight total arrests in between Thursday, July 12 and Sunday, July 15.
One of the Fields’ hate crime indictments is for the murder of Heather Heyer.
Justin Eugene Bryant’s case will come before a grand jury at the Albemarle Circuit Court Monday.
