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  • SC Church Shooter Dylann Roof Deemed Competent to Face Penalty Phase of Trial

    A federal judge has once again deemed white supremacist Dylann Roof competent to face trial, the New York Times reports. According to the report, on Monday, Judge Richard M. Gergel echoed the decision he made in a separate ruling in late November when Gergel found that Roof did not meet the legal standard to be…

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  • SC Church Shooter Dylann Roof Declines to Call Witnesses or Present Evidence in Penalty Phase of Trial 

    Self-professed white supremacist Dylann Roof was back in court Wednesday morning ahead of the penalty phase of his federal trial and is seemingly not willing to put up much of a fight to spare his own life, CNN reports. According to the report, Roof told a federal judge that he still plans to represent himself during…

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  • Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Charleston, SC, Church Shooting 

    A federal jury has found white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of the racially charged massacre of nine black parishioners at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the Associated Press reports. According to the newswire, the jury reached its verdict after less than two hours of deliberations, convicting the 22-year-old of federal…

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  • Dylann Roof Explains Charleston, SC, Church Shooting in Videotaped Confession

    Jurors in the trial of Dylann Roof on Friday got to hear him explain in his own words the motive for the shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead last year. Roof, now 22, was arrested in Shelby, N.C., the morning after the June 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,…

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  • Trial of Dylann Roof, Accused SC Church Shooter, Delayed Over Competency Issue 

    On Tuesday a federal judge said that he has ordered an evaluation into whether accused mass killer Dylann Roof was competent to stand trial for the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., last year, Reuters reports. According to the newswire, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel also postponed jury…

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  • Jury Selection Postponed in Trial of Accused Charleston, SC, Shooter Dylann Roof 

    Jury selection in the trial of accused Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof was postposed by a federal judge Monday, USA Today reports. According to the report, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel needed to privately hear a motion filed by Roof’s attorneys earlier that morning. The move came just moments after Roof entered the courtroom.…

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  • Accused Charleston, SC, Shooter 'Self-Radicalized' Online, Prosecutors Say

    Accused Charleston, S.C., shooter Dylann Roof “self-radicalized” online, adopting viewpoints that were reportedly acquired through material found online and elsewhere, federal prosecutors say, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, rather than adopting his beliefs “through his personal associations or experiences with white supremacist groups or individuals or others,” prosecutors say, Roof adopted his…

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  • Attorneys Argue Against 'Unconstitutional' Death Penalty for Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter 

    Federal prosecutors are trying to obtain the death penalty against Dylann Roof, 22, who is charged with opening fire in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015, killing nine black worshippers during their Bible-study session. Roof’s attorneys, however, are arguing that the death penalty is unconstitutional and that he therefore…

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  • Attorneys for Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter Dylann Roof Ask for Dismissal of Federal Case

    Attorneys for Dylann Roof, accused of shooting nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., are calling the federal case unconstitutional and asking for those charges to be dropped, WCSC reports. The court documents, which were filed Tuesday, assert that the case against Roof should be handled by the state of South…

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  • Prosecutor Asks That SC Be Allowed to Hold Dylann Roof Trial 1st

    A South Carolina state attorney is asking that the state be allowed to prosecute accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooter Dylann Roof before the federal government does, the Associated Press reports. Claiming that the state has primary jurisdiction over the case, 9th Judicial Circuit solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who will be prosecuting Roof for the state, said Tuesday that…

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