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The Virginia murder trial of a white nationalist rally participant accused of killing a woman in Charlottesville in 2017 is scheduled to begin Monday. Prosecutors say James Alex Fields Jr., 21, killed one and injured dozens when he drove a car into a crowd of people protesting the August rally in Charlottesville. Heather Heyer, 32, of Charlottesville was killed. Fields, of Boone County, Kentucky, faces 10 charges and a maximum of a life sentence in Virginia. The jury trial in Charlottesville Circuit Court is scheduled to last through Dec. 13, according to court records. Fields is also charged with federal hate crime charges in U.S. District Court that could become as a death penalty case.
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