A Maryland man who has identified himself as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard was found guilty Tuesday for illegally firing a weapon during last year’s volatile “Unite the Right” rally in the Charlottesville’s downtown.
Richard W. Preston Jr., 53, had planned on going to trial on the gamble that he could possibly persuade a jury that he had acted in defense of himself or others — an argument he made at earlier stages of his case.
But on Tuesday, Preston abandoned that strategy and pleaded no contest to the charge of firing a weapon within 1,000 feet of a school property. After entering his plea, prosecutors laid out the case they would have presented at trial. Immediately afterward, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore found Preston guilty.
Preston’s no-contest plea acknowledges that there is enough evidence to convict him without admitting that he committed the crime.
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5 comments:
What have BLM and the Black Panthers plead guilty too ?
Preston plead guilty as a person, not an organization. BLM and Panther members have been convicted of crimes. You get it now? Happy to help.
Dang liberals
Under the Obama administration ? Lolol biggest race baiters yet YOU GOT IT NOW ?.
Wow. You can't be that STUPID?? BLM is another RACIST group. Here we go. The poor Blacks. They ain't got nothing. They can't do NOTHING. They don't know NOTHING. Except getting over on STUPID WHITES like you. PATHETIC. Who were the first slave's?? Hint!! It wasn't a black!!! But 300 years from now we ALL will be STILL hearing the crap. PATHETIC. As are you!!
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