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Nikolas Cruz: Parkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to law!

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida – It wasn’t long ago that Florida school shooter Nicholas Cruz was considering a near-certain death sentence for the murder of 17 people in Parkland, even if his jury couldn’t unanimously agree on his fate. Until 2016, Florida law allowed judges to impose the death penalty if a majority of the jury agreed. With a 9-3 vote Thursday supporting Cruz’s execution, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Shearer would have likely sent him to death for the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. Now, however, a vote for anything…

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Nikolas Cruz: Jury reaches decision on sentence of Parkland school shooter!

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byTerry Spencer Associated Press Across Fort Lauderdale, Florida – A jury said Thursday that it has reached a decision on whether to recommend the execution of Florida school shooter Nicholas Cruz in the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The recommendation was not released immediately and came on the second day of deliberations, promising to end a three-month trial that included video footage, photos and testimony from the massacre and its aftermath, heart-wrenching testimony from family members of the victims and a…

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Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself!

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Lawyers for Florida school shooter Nicholas Cruz asked the judge in the murder case to dislodge herself Friday, two days after reprimanding them when they abruptly halted their case after calling only a small portion of their expected witnesses. The Broward Office of the Solicitor General said in a motion that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Shearer harbors a long-running animosity toward lead defense attorney Melissa McNeil. The application cited the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct which states that a judge must disqualify himself if a judge’s impartiality can reasonably be called…

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