Updated on Dec. 14, 2015: The federal trial will be held after the state trial. The state trial is set to begin in July, as previously reported.
Keeping up with the Dylann Storm Roof trial: Jury selection was supposed to begin but the federal trial has been pushed back to January. A state trial on the same charges will be held next July. The reason for the delayed fed trial is that Roof's attorneys want more time to prepare a defense. Makes no sense, because, honestly could there be more of a show trial than this?
Feds have not decided whether they will seek the death penalty. (Thought that was decided as "yes" a while back. But, no.) Judge told them to hurry up.
Associated Press story dated October 1, 2015 by Bruce Smith:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f69d5f666161406eb9ad0777e45937fb/attorneys-charleston-church-shooting-meet-judge
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It has also been reported that Judge Gergel will preside over the Joseph Meek trial as well as the Roof trial.
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No one mentions that part-black friend of Roof's. The kid who told the press on camera that Roof had told him a week before the church shooting that he was going to shoot up a school. Is that or is that not a crime to fail to report a plan to murder people? Nobody knows!
Sunday, October 4, 2015
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