Fields, 21, who is accused of killing a woman when he drove into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last fall is fighting a raft of federal hate crime related charges.
The suspect entered the plea on Thursday in Charlottesville one week after he was charged with 30 federal crimes on top of his previous charges for first-degree murder and other crimes.
Fields, of Maumee, Ohio, is accused of driving his car into a group of people who had gathered to protest a white supremacist rally on August 12, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.
The 21-year-old defendant who appeared in the court wearing handcuffs and shackles.
told  Judge Joel Hoppe that he is being treated for bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and ADHD, and is taking medication.
He said the drugs do not impair his ability to understand the charges against him.

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He also said he had a high school education and has worked as a security guard.
Hoppe said Fields was qualified to be represented by a federal public defender and appointed legal counsel for him.
Among the people in the courtroom were several survivors of the attack, including Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro.
Talking with news reporters outside the courthouse, Bro said she expected a not-guilty plea at this stage of the case, but added she still ‘felt a little punched in the gut.’
She also said she was a bit surprised that Fields’ voice sounded ‘bold.’
‘I just somehow expected him to sound more timid and abashed, but he didn’t sound like it at all,’ Bro said.

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The car attack came after vicious brawling broke out between white nationalists and counter-demonstrators and authorities forced the crowd to disband.
Prosecutors allege that after the crowd broke up, Fields drove his car toward the area where a racially diverse group of people had gathered to protest the rally.
They say he rapidly accelerated his gray Dodge Challenger into the crowd. The car then reversed and fled.
Fields, who has been described by authorities and others who knew him as an admirer of Adolf Hitler, was arrested a relatively short while later. He has been in custody since the attack.
According to an indictment, Fields expressed white supremacist views on social media ahead of the rally, such as support for Hitler’s policies, including the Holocaust.
As he prepared to leave for Charlottesville, a family member sent him a text message urging him to be careful and Fields replied: ‘We’re not the ones who need to be careful,’ attaching an image of Hitler, the indictment said.
The morning of the rally, Fields engaged in chants promoting or expressing white supremacist and other racist views, according to the indictment.
One of the federal charges Fields faces carries the death penalty, although prosecutors have not decided yet whether they will seek that punishment.
The local commonwealth’s attorney whose office is prosecuting the state-level charges has said the federal indictment will have no effect on that pending case. Fields is set to face trial on those charges later this year.