CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/WIS) - The man convicted for killing nine parishioners of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015 will not get a new trial, a federal court has ruled.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a motion from Dylann Roof that requested a new trial. Roof’s legal team filed a 300-page request earlier this year, claiming his attorneys were dishonest with him and that the federal judge presiding over his case was biased against him.

The appellate court ruled Roof, a self-proclaimed White supremacist who told investigators he hoped to start a race war with the shooting, did not show “a clear and indisputable right to the relief requested.”

Among Roof’s claims was that Judge Richard M. Gergel made it well-known that he wanted to preside over the case. The appe

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