GUILTY FL - 17 killed in Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Parkland, 14 Feb 2018 *shooter Guilty, School officer NG* #5

[Jinkasaurus]

I'm watching Day 8 of this trial. At the 4:12:00 mark, his Youtube comments from 2017 are posted. Its chilling to see how he told everyone what he was going to do.

 

[mpnola]

I am also watching the full trial. I see comments saying he took off his mask to let the jury see remorse. I disagree. He looks proud. He SAID he was excited to see the pain he causes the families. I almost hate that he gets to watch their pain and listen to the stories. Stories that should be told for the world! But to him, it's like his second crime wave. He's absolutely repulsive.

 

[SeesSeas]

A Court TV producer's firsthand look inside the scene of Parkland school shooting - Court TV

By Emanuella Grinberg FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Court TV) — The freshman building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been frozen in time since February 14, 2018, the day a former student stormed the hallways with a semiautomatic rifle, killing 17 people and wounding...

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A COURT TV PRODUCER’S FIRSTHAND LOOK INSIDE THE SCENE OF PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING
Posted at 8:02 PM, August 4, 2022 and last updated 11:40 AM, August 5, 2022
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Journalists were allowed into the building after the jury left for a rare glimpse into hallowed ground. We entered through the east stairwell just as Cruz did. A dirtied white teddy bear and two small gift bags lay in the stairwell where Cruz assembled his gun.

Throughout the building, shards of broken glass crunched as we walked over them and wedged into the soles of our shoes. The piles blanketed the threshold of each classroom where Cruz’s gunshots pierced windows in the door. Those doors were left open for the jury and journalists to roam through.
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In the teacher’s lounge, a window pane facing the 1300 building has 4 bullet holes. Another window pane next to it has another bullet hole. These overlook the courtyard and a parking lot where students were fleeing.

A poster next to the windows reads, “Typical or Troubled?” It has phone numbers for counseling services. “Notice if you are seeing troubling signs in a student,” the sign urges. “Share observations with school mental health staff.”
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[JerseyGirl]

Parkland school shooter trial: Prosecution rests after 3 weeks of graphic images, painful testimony

The prosecutor seeking to sentence Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case over the past three weeks, with terrifying witness accounts, heartbreaking testimonies from grieving parents, chilling surveillance videos, gruesome crime...

www.fox13news.com

 

[JerseyGirl]

Parkland shooter trial set to resume

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - The life or death trial of the Parkland shooter resumes after a week off.Attorneys from both sides will be presenting...

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[SeesSeas]

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz thinks he's going to get out of prison

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, who massacred 17 people in 2018, thinks he will eventually get out of prison to help people, according to a defense expert.

www.foxnews.com

Nikolas Cruz’s brain exams to be subject of court hearing

A defense mental health expert in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz can pinpoint when he realized the 23-year-old mass murderer still has “irrational thoughts” — the two were…

www.wfla.com

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But first, the trial took last week off to accommodate some jurors’ requests to deal with personal matters. The jury will also be absent this week as the sides argue before Scherer, who will decide whether brain scans, tests and other evidence the defense wants to present starting Aug. 22 is scientifically valid or junk, as the prosecution contends.
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[SeesSeas]

Parkland shooting trial: Nikolas Cruz's jailed sister to testify Monday

Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz's sister is set to testify Monday at his penalty trial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a high shooting that 17 people dead.

www.foxnews.com

August 17, 2022
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s jailed sister is scheduled to testify Monday when the gunman’s penalty trial for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago resumes.

An order to transport his half-sister, Danielle Woodard, 35, from the Turner Guild Knight Correctional Center to the Broward County Circuit Courthouse in Miami was filed on Aug. 15.
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[rebelchild]

Parkland shooting trial: Nikolas Cruz's jailed sister to testify Monday

Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz's sister is set to testify Monday at his penalty trial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a high shooting that 17 people dead.

www.foxnews.com

August 17, 2022
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s jailed sister is scheduled to testify Monday when the gunman’s penalty trial for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago resumes.

An order to transport his half-sister, Danielle Woodard, 35, from the Turner Guild Knight Correctional Center to the Broward County Circuit Courthouse in Miami was filed on Aug. 15.
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I'm going to be interested to see if he sheds any tears when his own family is on the stand.

 

[SeesSeas]

Stage set for Parkland gunman’s brother and sister to testify

August 18, 2022
The biological brother and sister of the Parkland gunman are preparing to testify for him when the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case resumes.
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Judge Rules Parkland Shooter's Brother and Roommate Will Answer All Questions
Aug 18, 2022
On Thursday, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled that the Parkland school shooter's brother Zachary Cruz and his brother's roommate Richard Moore will answer all questions asked by the state in a deposition.

 

[SeesSeas]

Grand jury wants school board members removed over Parkland massacre

A Florida grand jury empaneled after a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland high school has recommended that four members of that school board be fired.

www.news4jax.com

 

[SeesSeas]

MSN

The prosecution is done. Now, Nikolas Cruz's attorneys must work to save his life.

Jurors will return to the courtroom Monday to hear, for the first time, the gunman's defense in favor of life in prison.

www.palmbeachpost.com

As his defense launches, Parkland shooter still fixated on blood, murder, revenge

Editor’s note: Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are tasked with convincing a jury to vote for execution over a life sentence. The d…

www.sun-sentinel.com

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz still fantasizes about murdering people he hates. He smeared the devil’s “666″ on his cell wall recently, in his own blood, and drew disturbing sketches using a red Atomic FireBall candy. He’s glad he can wear a mask in court, he said, so the jurors can’t see him smile or laugh.

 

[Marysmith]

MSN

The prosecution is done. Now, Nikolas Cruz's attorneys must work to save his life.

Jurors will return to the courtroom Monday to hear, for the first time, the gunman's defense in favor of life in prison.

www.palmbeachpost.com

As his defense launches, Parkland shooter still fixated on blood, murder, revenge

Editor’s note: Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are tasked with convincing a jury to vote for execution over a life sentence. The d…

www.sun-sentinel.com

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz still fantasizes about murdering people he hates. He smeared the devil’s “666″ on his cell wall recently, in his own blood, and drew disturbing sketches using a red Atomic FireBall candy. He’s glad he can wear a mask in court, he said, so the jurors can’t see him smile or laugh.

So disturbing.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Defense in school shooter’s trial set to present its case

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecution spent three weeks telling jurors how Nikolas Cruz murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Florida high school four years ago. Now his attorney…

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[joe jones]

After hearing the defense opening statement it is obvious he was another boy who was a school shooter waiting to happen, he could have been stopped with the right intervention, I am against the DP but I won't be surprised if the jury votes for the DP

The victim impact statements were so powerful and emotional that I doubt many who heard them including the jurors could put them to one side when they deliberate, even though they are supposed to not let the victim impact statements have any weight in their deliberations It will be so hard to forget what was testified to about the victims and the loss felt by the families,

It is a tragedy that it ever happened at all, and I know I am in the majority but having compassion for the defendant does not preclude me from fully understanding the magnitude of what he has done, and understanding that the families pain is for life, and they never get to see their loved ones again,

 

[joe jones]

Nikolas Cruz team says his brain is ‘irretrievably broken’ as he fights death penalty

Defence says there is ‘no defence for this crime’ but Nikolas Cruz’s ‘choices’ all began with the ‘choices’ made by his biological mother Brenda Woodard

www.independent.co.uk

 

[joe jones]

Prosecutor Questions Parkland School Shooter's Half-Sister About 'Reality Show' Featuring Their Half-Brother

A prosecutor on Monday questioned the Parkland school shooter's half-sister about some kind of "reality show" featuring the siblings' half-brother.

lawandcrime.com

I do not understand what his brothers actions have to do with his trial, their is only one person on trial here, and what others have done or are doing hasn't any bearing on what Nikolas did,

 

[SeesSeas]

I do not understand what his brothers actions have to do with his trial, their is only one person on trial here, and what others have done or are doing hasn't any bearing on what Nikolas did,

This is the Penalty Phase.

Death Penalty Phases of Trial

In states that permit the death penalty, there are often two separate phases of the trial—the guilt phase and the penalty phase. Murder is the only crime for which someone may be sentenced to...

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Explainer: What are aggravating factors and mitigating circumstances? - The Law Office of Scott A. Ferris, P.A.

During this penalty phase in the Nikolas Cruz trial viewers will hear the court reference ‘aggravating factors’ and ‘mitigating circumstances’ FORT

ferrislawfirm.com

EXPLAINER: WHAT ARE AGGRAVATING FACTORS AND MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES?​

SOURCE: WPLG​

• July 18, 2022

DURING THIS PENALTY PHASE IN THE NIKOLAS CRUZ TRIAL VIEWERS WILL HEAR THE COURT REFERENCE ‘AGGRAVATING FACTORS’ AND ‘MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES’​

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – This trial starts in what is typically the second phase of a capital case.

That is because guilt was established in October when confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz plead guilty to shooting and killing 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staff and students when he was 19 years old on Valentine’s Day in 2018.

His guilty plea set up the penalty phase that began with jury selection on April 4.

“In the penalty phase, we get into the character of the accused,” NSU Law Professor Mark Dobson told Local 10′s Christina Vazquez. “It really comes down to the question of does this person deserve life or does this person deserve death?”
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[JerseyGirl]

Parkland shooting trial: Neighbor compares Nikolas Cruz to Alfred Neuman

A former neighbor of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz testified that the gunman looked strange as a young child and likened his appearance to Alfred Neuman.

www.foxnews.com

 

[rebelchild]

Parkland shooting trial: Neighbor compares Nikolas Cruz to Alfred Neuman

A former neighbor of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz testified that the gunman looked strange as a young child and likened his appearance to Alfred Neuman.

www.foxnews.com

This man was a joke. The defense should be embarrassed by his testimony. MOO

 

[Marysmith]

This man was a joke. The defense should be embarrassed by his testimony. MOO

No kidding. He should be embarrassed at the things he said as well.