Convicted church killer wants to fire Jewish, Indian lawyers
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A white supremacist who was sentenced to death in the 2015 massacre of nine black worshippers has told a federal appeals court he wants to fire his appellate attorneys because one of them is Jewish and the other is Indian-American.
In a handwritten request filed Monday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, Dylann Roof wrote that his attorneys' backgrounds are "a barrier to effective communication."
Given their ethnicities, Roof wrote, "it is therefore quite literally impossible that they and I could have the same interests relating to my case."
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Tuesday, September 19th 2017 at 10:27AM
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