12-07-2016, 05:30 PM
Federal Trial Underway -- Jury Selected and Opening Statements Delivered
--Dylann Roof, 22, is facing 33 federal charges including hate crimes and firearms
--Twelve jurors were chosen today, nine white and three black - with two of six alternates black
--Roof's lawyers offered several times to plead guilty if federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty - they refused
--Paramedics had to be called to the courtroom after opening statements to give medical assistance to an emotional woman believed to be a potential witness
--Roof's lawyer admitted 'there's not a great deal of dispute about the facts at this point,' but is arguing for a life sentence over the death penalty
--The shooter left behind a journal with his desires of a race war, including Nazi symbols, as well as a ranting, racist manifesto on the internet - he was set off about by the Trayvon Martin case and was convinced that George Zimmerman was right; he went on to become a White Supremacist and claimed that 'niggers' and 'negroes' were of lower IQ and higher testosterone and were a threat to the superior white race
--He'd called for a new civil war in America before staging his massacre
--Roof continues to serve as his own primary defense attorney
Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...begin.html
--Dylann Roof, 22, is facing 33 federal charges including hate crimes and firearms
--Twelve jurors were chosen today, nine white and three black - with two of six alternates black
--Roof's lawyers offered several times to plead guilty if federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty - they refused
--Paramedics had to be called to the courtroom after opening statements to give medical assistance to an emotional woman believed to be a potential witness
--Roof's lawyer admitted 'there's not a great deal of dispute about the facts at this point,' but is arguing for a life sentence over the death penalty
--The shooter left behind a journal with his desires of a race war, including Nazi symbols, as well as a ranting, racist manifesto on the internet - he was set off about by the Trayvon Martin case and was convinced that George Zimmerman was right; he went on to become a White Supremacist and claimed that 'niggers' and 'negroes' were of lower IQ and higher testosterone and were a threat to the superior white race
--He'd called for a new civil war in America before staging his massacre
--Roof continues to serve as his own primary defense attorney
Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...begin.html