Dylann Roof was convicted in 2016 for killing nine people when he opened fire on the Black congregation of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, during bible study in a racially-motivated attack.
how to handle disputes over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys. The justices did not comment Tuesday in turning away the appeal.
Justices' consideration is"needed to resolve a deep divide among the lower courts over who — client or lawyer — gets to decide whether mitigation evidence will be introduced at a capital penalty hearing." During the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial, Roof fired his legal team and opted to represent himself. This move, his appellate attorneys have written, successfully prevented jurors from hearing evidence about his mental health,"under the delusion" that"he would be rescued from prison by white-nationalists — but only, bizarrely, if he kept his mental-impairments out of the public record.
But there is a disconnect, his attorneys argued, between how such cases have been handled in the 4th Circuit versus other jurisdictions, where"the vast majority of state and federal courts hold otherwise, leaving this deeply personal choice to a defendant."
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