Dylann Roof Wants to Fire His 'Biological Enemies': His Lawyers

Dylann Roof, the convicted white supremacist murderer of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, SC, wants to dismiss and replace his legal team because they are his "political and biological enemies," he says in a handwritten letter filed with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals Monday. Roof, who's appealing his conviction and death sentence, says in the letter that his attorneys, Alexandra Yates and Sapna Mirchandani, "are Jewish and Indian respectively.

 It is therefore quite literally impossible that they and I could have the same interests relating to my case," the Post and Courier reports.

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