“As one racially charged trial in Charleston ended, another is set to begin next door.

“The nation’s eyes will shift Wednesday from a white police officer’s trial for murder in the shooting death of a black man to the start of a self-avowed white supremacist’s hate crimes trial for allegedly gunning down nine black worshipers in a church.

“On Monday, a judge declared a mistrial in the case of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, Walter Scott. On Wednesday morning, a judge is expected to impanel a jury to hear Dylann Roof’s federal death penalty trial.”

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