Roof feared mental state might block white nationalists job
Source: Associated Press
Roof feared mental state might block white nationalists job
Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press Updated 5:11 pm, Tuesday, April 11, 2017
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof fought so hard to keep evidence of any mental problems out of his trial because he worried it would prevent him from getting a high government position if white nationalists took over the county, according to court documents from his lawyers.
At about the same time before his death penalty trial started last year, Roof called his lawyers liars and said they should be disbarred because they were "the sneakiest group of people I have ever met," according to once secret court documents made public Tuesday.
A judge unsealed hundreds of pages of documents about Roof's mental state the day after his legal journey ended with him pleading guilty to nine counts of murder in South Carolina court for his racist attack that killed nine black people during a Bible study at a Charleston church in June 2015.
Roof agreed to a sentence of life without parole in state court and no appeals in return for prosecutors dropping the death penalty. Roof is heading to federal death row after a jury found him guilty of hate crimes in the killings at Emanuel AME church. He is appealing that decision.
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