COLUMBIA, S.C. — The white man charged in the shooting deaths of
nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year is
competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel's decision
clears the way for jury selection to restart Monday in the hate-crimes
trial of 22-year-old Dylann Roof.
The judge had delayed the process of narrowing the final jury pool on
Nov. 7 when Roof's lawyers suggested their client either didn't
understand the charges against him or couldn't properly help them with
his defense. The lawyers did not say what led them to question Roof's
fitness for trial.
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