WASHINGTON (WCSC) — 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. Roof, who was convicted in the 2015 killing of nine Black parishioners at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church and sentenced to death, had sought the recusal of a federal judge, Richard Gergel.This was because one of Roof’s former lawyers had claimed that Gergel had expressed a desire to oversee the case, which Roof’s team argued was a sign of bias against the defendant....
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