Trial begins for man charged in 2017 Charlottesville torch rally at the University of Virginia
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Jacob Joseph Dix arrives at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Jacob Joseph Dix and Peter Frazier exit the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The trial of Dix got underway with jury selection. The case will provide the first test of a 2002 Virginia law that makes it a felony to burn something to intimidate and cause fear of injury or death. Lawmakers passed the law after the state Supreme Court ruled that a cross-burning statute used to prosecute Ku Klux Klan members was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor arrives at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Jacob Joseph Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Peter Frazier and Jacob Joseph Dix arrive at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Jacob Joseph Dix arrives at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor exits the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The trial of Jacob Joseph Dix, 29, got underway with jury selection. The case will provide the first test of a 2002 Virginia law that makes it a felony to burn something to intimidate and cause fear of injury or death. Lawmakers passed the law after the state Supreme Court ruled that a cross-burning statute used to prosecute Ku Klux Klan members was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Jacob Joseph Dix and Peter Frazier exit the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The trial of Dix got underway with jury selection. The case will provide the first test of a 2002 Virginia law that makes it a felony to burn something to intimidate and cause fear of injury or death. Lawmakers passed the law after the state Supreme Court ruled that a cross-burning statute used to prosecute Ku Klux Klan members was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Jacob Joseph Dix arrives at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)Peter Frazier and Jacob Joseph Dix arrive at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)
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Jacob Joseph Dix arrives at the Albemarle County Circuit Court in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, a trial is set to begin Tuesday for Dix ,one of the people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)
