In a 321-page legal brief filed Tuesday with the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, his lawyers argued that when Roof represented himself in court, he “was a 22-year-old, ninth-grade dropout” who suffered from schizophrenia, autism, anxiety and depression.

Roof told a jury at the time that he wasn’t mentally ill and chose to represent himself in the sentencing phase of his death-penalty trial.

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