Judges: Check should have halted Roof
Posted 9/1/19
Special to the Chronicle
The families of Dylann Roof’s victims will get their day in court after all.
A federal appeals court has reinstated their lawsuit over a faulty background check …
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Judges: Check should have halted Roof
File photo: Judges say the government erred in allowing Dylann Roof to buy a gun.
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Special to the Chronicle
The families of Dylann Roof’s victims will get their day in court after all.
A federal appeals court has reinstated their lawsuit over a faulty background check that let the former Lexington resident buy a gun to kill 9 people.
The 3-judge Appeals Court in Richmond, VA, reversed a lower court that threw out claims by relatives of those Roof killed at a Charleston church in 2015.
The lower court judge said the claims did not fit narrow exceptions to laws that shield government employees from liability in their official duties. The appeals court disagreed.
The FBI acknowledged Roof’s drug possession arrest in Columbia weeks before the shooting at Emanuel AME Church should have halted the gun sale.
The families of Dylann Roof’s victims will get their day in court after all.
A federal appeals court has reinstated their lawsuit over a faulty background check that let the former Lexington resident buy a gun to kill 9 people.
The 3-judge Appeals Court in Richmond, VA, reversed a lower court that threw out claims by relatives of those Roof killed at a Charleston church in 2015.
The lower court judge said the claims did not fit narrow exceptions to laws that shield government employees from liability in their official duties. The appeals court disagreed.
The FBI acknowledged Roof’s drug possession arrest in Columbia weeks before the shooting at Emanuel AME Church should have halted the gun sale.
For what the judges said about the error that let Roof buy a gun, see Thursday’s Chronicle.
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Dylann Roof, charleston church shooting, massacre, Lexington County
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