COLUMBIA, S.C. â Defense lawyers will advance arguments Tuesday on up to 20 issues in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, as to why Dylann Roof was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to the death penalty in 2017 after a weekslong trial. They will ask the court to vacate both the conviction and the death penalty.
Those arguments will be countered by a team of prosecution appellate lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice. They seek to uphold the conviction and sentence.
Roof, 27, who grew up in Columbia, was sentenced to death in January 2017 by U.S. Judge Richard Gergel after a jury found him guilty of 18 death-eligible federal hate crimes and firearms charges in the Charleston church shooting. In a subsequent proceeding to determine sentence, the same jury ruled Roof deserved the death penalty. Gergel then pronounced the sentence.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently became
the first circuit court to address the question of whether a
corporate parent can set off an obligation that it owes to a
bankrupt company against a claim owed by such company to the
parent s subsidiary. A couple of years ago, in the chapter 11
case of
Orexigen Therapeutics in the District of Delaware,
former Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross denied a motion to allow such a triangular setoff. Last month, the Third Circuit