November trial set in U.S. case against accused Charleston church shooter
Source: Reuters
A U.S. judge on Tuesday set a Nov. 7 date for the federal trial of the white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a church in Charleston a year ago.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel set the federal proceedings, in which prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, ahead of a state capital punishment trial scheduled for January.
Gergel said up to 1,500 people from across South Carolina could be called as possible jurors for the federal trial.
Federal prosecutors said last month that they intended to pursue capital punishment for Roof should he be convicted of the June 17, 2015, killings during a Bible study at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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World | Tue Jun 7, 2016 6:30pm EDT
CHARLESTON, S.C. | BY HARRIET MCLEOD