Why Does Dylann Roof Want Another Trial

He was convicted of all 33 counts.

Why does dylann roof want another trial.

A jury in charleston s c has found roof guilty on all 33 federal hate crime counts for murdering nine people in the basement of a historically black church in 2015. The day after the sentencing i flew to san francisco. Pinckney and injured. Roof a 21 year old with a criminal record is accused of killing nine people at a bible.

Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s. State of south carolina. Dylann roof s trial for the murder of nine black people in a charleston church continued on thursday despite his defence team attempting to halt proceedings after a survivor declared that he. Roof officially the united states of america v dylann storm roof was a 2017 federal trial involving dylann roof and his role in the charleston church shooting five days after the shooting roof was indicted on 33 federal charges including 12 counts of committing a hate crime against black victims.

During a bible study at emanuel african methodist episcopal church roof killed nine people all african americans including senior pastor and state senator clementa c. Dylann roof the 23 year old white supremacist who fatally shot nine members of a charleston s c bible study class in 2015 told the judge presiding over his death penalty trial last year that. The fate of dylann roof will likely wind through thickets of legal appeals and an equally onerous state trial before it is ultimately resolved. On may 24 2016 the justice department announced that roof would face the.

He could be sentenced to death. As the verdict was read roof just stared ahead much as he did the entire trial. Family members of victims held hands and squeezed one another s arms.