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Served? >> certainly. well, i think for heather heyers family at least and for the other victims you have to remember there were dozens of people who were injured. heather heyer was fortunately the only person who was killed. but there were dozens of people who were injured when james fields plowed his car into those ralliers. for those folks they have received some measure of justice but you cant imagine this makes it much easier for heather heyers family. and i think for many americans who are...

Cnns kaylee hartung has more. >> reporter: he was convicted friday of first degree murder and all other charges brought against him. >> i think every last one of those jurors were doing what they needed to do. they made the choice to express to the world like we dont stand for this type of hate. >> a jury took over seven hours of deliberation to find james alex fields jr. guilty of heather heyers murder. and one count of failing to stop at an accident involving a death. through a week of testimo...

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Plowed his car into a crowd at a unite the right rally in charlottesville, killing one woman and injuring nearly three dozen. james fields, convicted of first degree murder in the death of 32-year-old heather heyer. fields seen here in 2017 speeding through that group of people and then erratically backing up. a state jury rejecting arguments by fields attorneys that the 21-year-old acted in self-defense. quote, "scared to death" by the violent protests. a far different picture painted by the pr...

Here, and its very graphic. but we saw this happening almost in real time. >> reporter: and not just in one place but there was someone who spoke, a witness who spoke who had facebook lived it. there were other videos of this. theres some surveillance video as well. so there were multiple different places where people had video of either the beginning of the incident or the whole thing. so there is a lot of video out there due to social media in part. but the defense appears to be trying to say ...

Theres some surveillance video as well. so there were multiple different places where people had video of either the beginning of the incident or the whole thing. so there is a lot of video out there due to social media in part. but the defense appears to be trying to say that this was done in self-defense. now, we havent heard the defenses case yet. we are expecting the prosecution to rest its case before lunch tomorrow. this case going very quickly, according to the judge. but we are listening...

It was a deadly incident that shocked america. now more than a year after heather heyer was killed, when a car plowed into the crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in charlottesville, the trial of 21-year-old james alex fields is under way. he faces a possible life sentence if he is convicted of first-degree murder. fields also faces eight more counts related to eight people who were injured. sara sidners been following the trial and she joins me now. sara, good evening to you...

Hitler there and you also have his aggression coming out in those text messages. it sounds like preplanning, if you will, as well. then you have this. three months before any of this happened. there was a meme that james fields put out on instagram. and that the judge says can come in to this case. and ill look at this meme. basically you see that picture there. its someone running into a bunch of people. and it says, "you have the right to protest, but im late for work." so it shows a certain k...

Could be potentially damaging for james fields defense because it could speak to his state of mind. what we are now seeing from prosecutors who are trying to get the judge to allow this to come into the case are text messages between james fields and his mother long before police say he rammed his car into ever protesters here in charlottesville, virginia. im going to read out the text messages that the prosecutor is trying to get into this case. heres what the first text says. it says fields te...

And his mother long before police say he rammed his car into ever protesters here in charlottesville, virginia. im going to read out the text messages that the prosecutor is trying to get into this case. heres what the first text says. it says fields tells his mom "i got the weekend off so ill be able to go to the rally." his mother responds, like any mother would, telling him to be careful. fields then sends this text back that reads, "were not the one who need to be careful." and he adds an im...