Richard Gergel

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Gergel was the presiding judge on the trial of Dylann Roof, who was convicted of 33 federal charges relating to the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Roof was convicted on all charges and controversially represented himself during the sentencing phase despite Gergel warning Roof it was not in his best interests to do so. On January 11, 2017, Gergel sentenced Dylann Roof to death after the jury recommended the death penalty the previous day. [6]

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Gergel is the author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) and, with Belinda Gergel, of In Pursuit of the Tree of Life: A History of the Early Jews of Columbia, South Carolina (1996). [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 President Obama Nominates Judge J. Michelle Childs, Richard Mark Gergel to District Court Bench for the District of South Carolina Archived February 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , whitehouse.gov (December 22, 2009).
  2. ↑ "Richard Mark Gergel Biography – Gergel Nickles & Solomon Attorneys At Law". Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Richard Gergel at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges , a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .
  4. ↑ Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate, 12/22/09, whitehouse.gov (December 22, 2009).
  5. ↑ Monk, John (August 6, 2010). "Columbians Gergel, Childs Confirmed as Federal Judges". www.libertyfellowshipsc.org. The State. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  6. ↑ Blinder, Alan; Sack, Kevin (January 10, 2017). "Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Judge Richard Gergel". Library of Congress. 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
Richard Gergel
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Assumed office
August 9, 2010
Legal offices
Preceded byJudge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
2010–present		Incumbent
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