Posted September 20, 2017 8:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Convicted mass murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof wants the court to fire the non-white lawyers assigned to his federal appeal case. (Photo: Guns.com)
The 23-year-old man convicted of murdering nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015 wants a federal appeals court to dismiss his legal team because the attorneys aren’t white.
Dylann Roof — the white supremacist sentenced to die in January, 18 months after he gunned down a bible study group at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in hopes of igniting a race war — wrote a letter to U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday requesting new, white attorneys, according to a report from The State.
“My two currently appointed attorneys, Alexandra Yates and Apna Mirchandani, are Jewish and Indian respectively,” he said in his letter addressed to the court Monday. “It is therefore quite literally impossible that they and I could have the same interests relating to my case … Trust is a vital component in an attorney client relationship, and is important to the effectiveness of the defense. Because of my political views, which are arguably religious, it will be impossible for me to trust two attorneys that are my political and biological enemies.”
Roof also complained about the

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