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US argues Supreme Court shouldn’t review Dylann Roof case

FILE - Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. on June 19, 2015. Dylann Roof's death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of the Black South Carolina congregation should be upheld and don't merit review by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for the federal government wrote in an expected filing on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File) FILE - Dylann Roof enters the court room at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges on April 10, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. Roof's death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should be upheld and don't merit review by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for the federal government wrote in an expected filing on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)
US argues Supreme Court shouldn’t review Dylann Roof case