Five people indicted for crimes they committed during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. One indictment is for first degree murder.

James Alex Fields, charged with murdering Heather Heyer.

Courtesy of the Daily Progress:  

A grand jury has indicted five men on charges stemming from the failed Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. 

On Monday evening, the grand jury indicted James Alex Fields Jr. on all 10 charges he faces in the car attack that killed Heather Heyer, including first-degree murder.

Fields faces a penalty of 20 years to life in prison on the murder charge. In a preliminary hearing Thursday, prosecutors upgraded his second-degree murder charge to first-degree. 

General District Judge Robert H. Downer Jr., also certified charges against Alex Ramos, Jacob Goodwin and Richard Preston on Monday. Another judge had already certified a charge against Daniel Borden. 

Borden, Ramos and Goodwin were all indicted by a grand jury on charges stemming from the Market Street Garage beating of DeAndre Harris, of Suffolk. 

Preston was indicted on a charge of firing a weapon near a school.

You may remember that this is the rally of which Donald Trump claimed that there were "good people" on both sides.

Well it appears that these "good people" may be headed to prison. 

You know it continues to irritate me that the conservatives were essentially calling for a lynch mob to go after the undocumented immigrant who accidentally killed Kate Stenle with a gun, but seem completely undisturbed by a guy who killed Heather Heyer after purposefully driving his car into a crowd of people.

And finally some good news for today. Florida man who shot unarmed teenager over loud music found guilty of murder.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

A Florida man was convicted Wednesday in the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager amid a dispute over loud rap music blaring from a car. 

Jurors in the racially tinged retrial deliberated for about five hours before finding Michael Dunn guilty of first-degree murder. 

It was the second time that Mr. Dunn, 47, a software developer who claimed self-defense in the death of Jordan Davis, 17, faced a jury. In February, a jury convicted Mr. Dunn of three counts of second-degree attempted murder – one for each of the surviving teenagers in the Dodge Durango — a crime for which he could receive a 60-year prison sentence.

I am sure that many of you remember this case from 2012, and perhaps even remember that Dunn compared himself to a rape victim at one point.

When the first jury could not agree on the first degree murder conviction, and the judge declared a mistrial, I think most of us were confused as to how such a thing could possibly happen.

I find it interesting that the former jury could not come to an agreement on the first degree murder charge, and yet this one only had to deliberate for about five hours before finding him guilty.

Hey remember that guy in Florida who was only convicted of attempted second degree murder after killing an unarmed teenager for playing his music too loud? Yeah he's going back to court.

Courtesy of the Tallahassee Democrat:  

Jury selection is set for today in the second trial of man accused of first-degree murder in the death of a teenager during a 2012 dispute over loud music. 

Jordan Davis, 17, died after Michael Dunn, 47, fired into the SUV in which Davis was a passenger. 

Dunn was previously convicted of three counts of attempted second-degree murder and firing into an occupied vehicle, but jurors deadlocked on the charge of first-degree murder. 

He has yet to be sentenced on the charges he was convicted of during the first trial, but faces up to 60 to 150 years in prison.

Apparently the state was unhappy with the first conviction so they are attempting a do-over. 

The attorney for the family stated that they hope that this time the jury comes back with a first degree murder conviction.

Now don't get me wrong I think this guy deserves to go away for a long, long time, which he will already do anyhow with just the attempted second degree murder conviction, but isn't trying him twice against the law? I do believe that is called Double Jeopardy.

I am no legal eagle but I did see that Ashley Judd movie like four times.