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Charleston shooter lawyer: Racist delusion showed incapacity

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His attorneys argue the “delusional belief” of the man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should have meant he couldn’t represent himself at trial. Attorneys for Dylann Roof told an appeals court Tuesday that Roof’s theory that he’d be saved by white nationalists – but only if he kept mental health evidence out of his defense – should have shown his trial judge he wasn’t competent.

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Charleston church shooter making appellate arguments

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The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation is making his appellate argument that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Oral arguments in the case of Dylann Roof are scheduled to be held Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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14-year-old dead, several injured after shooting at ‘unauthorized’ concert in North Charleston

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP): More than a dozen people were shot during a concert in North Charleston, South Carolina, including a 14-year-old girl who was killed, police said Sunday. Early indications are that a fight broke out during what police called an unannounced and unauthorized concert in a neighborhood late Saturday, North Charleston police said in a statement. Officers were…

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