{"id":3320,"date":"2016-11-25T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:16:01","slug":"update-dylan-roof-competent-stand-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/25\/update-dylan-roof-competent-stand-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Dylan Roof Competent To Stand Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ruled Dylan Roof, the man accused of shooting and killing nine people at a South Carolina church, will stand trial.<\/p>\n<p>After a two day hearing, a judge found Dylan Roof is competent, but will not say why because it could lead to unfair trial.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who is white, is accused of opening fire during a bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2015. All of Roof&#8217;s victims were black. Police say his motive was to provoke a race war. He&#8217;s now facing 33 federal charges and could be sentenced to death if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A federal judge has ruled Dylan Roof, the man accused of shooting and killing nine people at a South Carolina church, will stand trial. After a two day hearing, a judge found Dylan Roof is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/25\/update-dylan-roof-competent-stand-trial\/\" title=\"UPDATE: Dylan Roof Competent To Stand Trial\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2032],"class_list":{"0":"post-3320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-dylan-roof","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}