Laura Hughes, an attorney who's also a former Virginia Beach school board member and the current chair of the Republican Party of Virginia Beach, was indicted on the charge this week.
Jacob Joseph Dix's trial was the first test of a Virginia law that makes it a felony to burn something to intimidate and cause fear of injury or death.
A Virginia judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on charges against a man accused of using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a 2017 gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on charges against a man accused of using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a 2017 gathering