Jury Begins Deliberations in Dylann Roof Trial

The process started after U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel spent more than an hour reading the jury charge and outlining the allegations against Roof.

Roof is accused of killing nine church members at Emanuel AME last year in Charleston.

A federal grand jury indicted Roof last July on 33 federal charges, including nine murder charges and three attempted murder charges under the Shepard-Byrd Act, a federal hate crime law signed in 2009 that expanded hate crime motivations to include race, gender, or disability. Nine murder charges and three attempted murder charges were also filed under another federal law that makes attacking someone based on their religion a hate crime

The original indictment was a lengthy 15-page document that spelled out the alleged crimes and named the victims repeatedly.