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Jacob Goodwin, 23, one of three men convicted or pleading guilty
to the beating, was sentenced by a Charlottesville Circuit Court
judge, WVIR-TV in Charlottesville and others reported.
Court officials and the Charlottesville prosecutor were not
immediately available for comment. As of Thursday afternoon,
online court records did not include a sentence.
Another co-defendant, Alex Ramos, is set to be sentenced later
on Thursday by the same judge, the TV station said. The final
man charged in the beating, Daniel Borden, pleaded guilty in May
and is set for sentencing in October, court records showed.
Goodwin, who said he acted in self-defense, was convicted by a
jury in May. He has said in an interview with the NBC TV network
that he belongs to a white nationalist group in Arkansas.
DeAndre Harris, 20, suffered a broken arm and a spinal injury in
the attack, which took place when there was a rally by white
nationalists in the Virginia city. Harris can be seen in a video
of the incident being beaten with poles and kicked while he is
on the ground.
At the same "Unite the Right" rally, a man drove a car into a
group of demonstrators protesting against white nationalists,
killing a woman. James Fields faces murder and hate crime
charges in forthcoming trials in that incident.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Editing by Frank
McGurty and Peter Cooney)
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