Rafael Olmeda
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The two men who offered a home, a job and a life far from South Florida to the brother of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter were arrested in Virginia charged with exploiting the young man while pretending to help him.
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Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's defense team are portraying him as the neurologically damaged victim of his mother’s heavy drinking. But a day after neurologist Paul Connor testified for the defense that he lacked the ability to quickly shift the focus of his attention and had trouble using his working memory, prosecutors got him to concede many of Cruz’s neurological test scores were in the normal range.
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Judge Elizabeth Scherer dismissed a panel of 60 potential jurors on Monday after a number of them became visibly distraught at the prospect of deciding the fate of the confessed Parkland shooter.
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Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty last fall to 17 counts of first-degree murder, but that did not end the case — prosecutors still have to convince 12 jurors that his crime deserves the death penalty.
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The confessed gunman of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is expected to plead guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
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Attorneys for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz want the first day of jury selection in his battery on a law enforcement case delayed, saying his lead attorney has been seriously ill for the previous few days.
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Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony must obtain records spelling out what crimes he was charged with in Philadelphia as a teenager and whether he was convicted of any of those crimes, a Broward judge ruled Thursday.
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A circuit judge is ordering the families of the Parkland victims to turn over their social media posts as part of multiple lawsuits against the Broward County School District.
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A U.S. District judge cleared the way for a civil lawsuit to proceed against a Broward Sheriff deputy, who was cleared of a manslaughter charges in 2013.
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The trial of confessed gunman in the 2018 Parkland shooting will be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.