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Supreme Court ends Charleston church shooter’s bid to disqualify trial judge
The justices left intact his conviction and death sentence after lower courts said the judge-bias claim was hearsay.
- On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear Dylann Roof's appeal seeking to disqualify federal judge Richard Gergel from his trial in the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
- Roof's legal team argued that Gergel's alleged desire to oversee the trial at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston indicated bias against the defendant.
- Lower courts previously dismissed these claims as hearsay, ruling that expressing a desire to preside over a case does not constitute bias.
- Roof remains on the federal government's death row after the Biden administration declined to commute his sentence to life imprisonment in December 2024.
- With no execution date set for the 2015 murders of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME Church, Roof and his defense team continue their appeals process.
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Live5NewsCharleston church shooter’s latest attempt at SCOTUS appeal rebuffed
Court documents show that Dylann Roof’s attempt to appeal his sentencing based on a judge’s alleged desire to oversee the trial has failed after the Supreme Court said they would not hear his case.
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