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The defense team for Nikolas Cruz filed their request to remove Judge Elizabeth Scherer last Friday after she called them "unprofessional". It is not the first time the defense attorneys for the school shooter have asked the judge to step down.
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Defense lawyers for confessed Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz are asking Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to recuse herself, saying she took her criticism of their team too far when they rested their case without warning earlier this week.
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Defense lawyers for the Parkland school shooter rested their case Wednesday, a move that came as a surprise–especially to the judge.
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The defense team for the man who murdered 17 people ended their case early, surprising the judge and prosecutors.
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The death penalty trial for the Parkland shooting trial resumed this week after a two-week break and Nikolas Cruz's lawyers have continued to take jurors through his life chronologically as they seek to prove his difficult childhood contributed to the violence. They hope it will be enough to persuade one juror to not back the death penalty, which would be enough for him to get life in prison instead.
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“In telling you the chapters of his life, we will give you reasons for life,” lead attorney Melisa McNeill said.
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The jury will be absent this week as the sides argue before Judge Scherer, who will decide whether brain scans, tests and other evidence of the confessed Parkland school shooter the defense wants to present starting Aug. 22 is scientifically valid or junk, as the prosecution contends.
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It's not a new debate — but could showing graphic evidence of mass school shootings change public opinion on gun laws?
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It was a brutal and emotional end to the prosecution’s case against the confessed Parkland shooter. Jurors visited the school building where the massacre happened — seeing with their own eyes the bloodstains and bullet holes preserved at the crime scene — and heard the final victim impact statements from loved ones of those who were murdered.
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Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories.
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Few Americans outside law enforcement and government ever see the most graphic videos or photos from the nation’s worst mass shootings. But during the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, surveillance videos and crime scene photos are being seen by jurors and journalists.
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A jail guard testified Wednesday that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz attacked him with little warning nine months after Cruz murdered 17 students and staff at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago and tried to wrest away his electric stun gun.