Lunenburg Commonwealth Attorney Agrees to Father’s Plea

Robert Fields, the Nottoway man charged as the driver accomplice in the Codarrell Yates malicious wounding case, has asked the office of the Lunenburg County Commonwealth Attorney for a deal. Fields’ attorney has proposed that Fields stay out of Lunenburg County for five years rather than serve an active sentence of one year in jail. The reason for this request was that Fields wished to spend Thanksgiving, his child’s first birthday, and Christmas with his child. The Commonwealth Attorney’s office agreed with two stipulations: Field must enter and leave Lunenburg by the most direct route and must be with his child while in the county.

If the Commonwealth Attorney had not agreed to this deal, Fields would have been released in March, 2014. Originally, Fields was sentenced to 20 years with all suspended except time served, with the typical conditions of good behavior for 20 years, warrant-less searches and seizures, and supervised probation.