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Q: FILE - In this June18, 2016 file photo, Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C. The trial for Roof, a white man accused of killing nine black people at the church,... (Associated Press) 
  
 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the federal death-penalty trial of a white man charged with killing nine black people during a Bible study in a Charleston church (all times local): 
  
 9 a.m. 
  
 Defense attorneys are asking for a mistrial in Dylann Roof's death-penalty trial, saying a witness's remarks that he is evil and belongs in the "pit of hell" were inappropriate. 
  
 Roof is on trial on 33 federal counts, including hate crimes, in the June 2015 shootings of nine black parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church last year. 
  
 In a motion filed Thursday morning, the defense asks for a mistrial after shooting survivor Felicia Sanders took the stand Wednesday and called Roof "evil, evil, evil" and said he should be in "the pit of hell." 
  
 In the motion, the defense said such statements have no place in a courtroom. The motion asks that, if a mistrial is not granted, prosecutors be prohibited from mentioning the testimony in their closing arguments. The court has not yet taken up the motion. 
  
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 2:40 a.m. 
  
 The attorneys defending Dylann Roof in the Charleston church shooting trial are largely conceding his guilt in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church last year. Their attention is on keeping their client out of the death chamber. 
  
 Roof's federal death penalty trial on 33 counts, including hate crimes, enters a second day Thursday. 
  
 Roof's defense attorney David Bruck told the jurors as the trial opened there's not a lot the defense can dispute in the guilt or innocence phase of the trial. The real question, he said, is whether the 22-year-old Roof spends the rest of his life in prison or is executed. 
  
 Bruck said the defense may not present any defense witnesses in the guilt phase of the trial and won't have many questions for those the prosecution calls. ||||| Close Get email notifications on Jennifer Hawes daily! 
  
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A: 
Dylann Roof's defense team started the second day of his trial by asking for a mistrial, a request the judge promptly denied. A survivor of the 2015 church massacre in Charleston, SC, testified on the first day of the trial about watching her son die and, during her testimony, referred to Roof as "evil" and said he belongs in the "pit of hell." The defense team argued those remarks were inappropriate, the AP reports. But the judge ruled the comments were not unduly prejudicial, the Post and Courier reports. The defense team argued that the testimony seemed to suggest a sentence for Roof before guilt had been established, so the judge said that while he would not strike the testimony from the record, he would "instruct the jury that the sentencing decision is always theirs and not the responsibility of any of the parties or any of the witnesses." The defense team also revealed that after Wednesday's opening statements, Roof's mother was taken to the hospital and treated for a heart attack.