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Self-described neo-Nazi James Fields - who rammed his car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 -- pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes, Wednesday.
Fields has already been convicted of killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer in the incident.
The 21-year-old is facing a sentence of life in prison for Heyer’s murder.
Under the plea agreement, prosecutors said they will NOT seek the death penalty.
Fields’ attorneys never disputed that he accelerated his Dodge Charger into a group of counter-protesters at the rally... The lawyers suggested he felt intimidated and acted to protect himself.
Fields was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group.
President Trump was criticized from the left and the right for initially saying there were “fine people on both sides” of the protests.
Fields’ formal sentencing for Heather Heyer's murder is scheduled for July 15.