A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond affirmed Dylann Roof's conviction and sentence in the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof's conviction and sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.
The 4th Circuit found that the trial judge did not commit an error when he found Roof was competent to stand trial and issued a scathing rebuke of Roof's crimes. One of Roof's attorneys, Margaret Alice-Anne Farrand, a deputy federal public defender, declined to comment on the ruling.All of the judges in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers South Carolina, recused themselves from hearing Roof’s appeal; one of their own, Judge Jay Richardson, prosecuted Roof’s case as an assistant U.S. Attorney. The panel that heard arguments in May and issued the ruling on Wednesday was comprised of judges from several other appellate circuits.
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