Here's an article with more details on Augustus Invictus' sentencing. Yesterday I left out an important detail from Emily Gorcenski's initial post: most of his five-year sentence is suspended, and he's only slated to spend 9.5 months in jail. He has, of course, already said he'd appeal (in his usual grandstanding style, he's promising to take it to the Supreme Court), but it sounds like he doesn't have much of a case (he's actually a lawyer, but he's also a violent kook, go figure).

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/goats-blood-drinking-florida-man-gets-9-1-2-months-for-role-in-torch-carrying/article_1a26be9e-ceb1-11ef-919b-2fccf28af730.html

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Emily Gorcenski, who is way more clued into this than I am, has posted on Bluesky that neo-Nazi and goat's blood-drinker Augustus Sol Invictus has been sentenced to five years for using fire to intimidate during the tiki torch march in Charlottesville on August 11, 2017. However, she also points out that he won't actually go to jail just yet pending appeal. [Edit: Most of his sentence will be suspended, and he's only set to serve 9.5 months at the moment.] Make of it what you will.

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…aaand Augustus Sol Invictus has, in fact, been defeated: for the first time, a Virginia jury has found someone guilty under that state’s anti-cross-burning law, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

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The goat’s blood-drinking White supremacist and failed Senate candidate who participated in the torch-lit march across University of Virginia Grounds before the infamous Unite the Right rally-turned-riot in 2017 was convicted Friday.

Augustus Sol Invictus was found guilty in Albemarle County court for violating a Virginia law that prohibits the use of fire to racially intimidate. He could face five years behind bars.

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/torch-toting-unite-the-right-participant-convicted/article_b1c7280c-8824-11ef-8d09-8b76156f839f.html

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On a related note, Augustus Sol Invictus still exists, and he has taken his "using a burning object to intimidate" charge to trial. His lawyer tried, and failed, to argue that a torch isn't a "burning object" because "all that's being burned is the oil" and oil somehow isn't an object. Go figure.

Anyways, Sol Invictus (who wasn't given that name at birth, but picked it I guess because it's the most absurdly pompous thing he could think of) is a lawyer himself, but his track record isn't so hot. He has also admitted to drinking goat's blood and, while he was found not guilty on some really horrible domestic violence charges, there's really nothing about his personality or other public statements to make me think that he's not exactly the kind of person who would do what he was accused of.

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-greenlights-trial-for-florida-man-who-participated-in-2017-march-at-uva/article_f465d98c-81d1-11ef-baf6-d393667f9456.html

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