Judge Pushes Back Start Date Of Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz Sentencing Trial

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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – The commencement day of Parkland schoolhouse shooter Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing proceedings has been pushed back.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer had antecedently ordered it to commencement successful January 2022. In an bid issued, December 29th, Scherer said that has changed.

“The Court antecedently acceptable this substance down for a proceedings day successful aboriginal January, 2022. Both parties, however, person represented to this Court that they each request further clip to hole their experts for proceedings and volition not beryllium acceptable to commence proceedings connected the scheduled January date,” wrote Scherer successful the order.

Scherer wrote that the commencement day has been moved to February 2022.

Last October, Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of execution and 17 counts of attempted execution during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, leaving a assemblage to determine whether helium volition beryllium executed for the deadliest precocious schoolhouse shooting successful US history.

The blameworthy pleas acceptable the signifier for a punishment proceedings successful which 12 jurors volition find whether the 23-year-old should beryllium sentenced to decease oregon beingness successful situation without parole.

Given the case’s notoriety, plans to surface thousands of prospective jurors.

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Cruz’s defence squad has tried to get the decease punishment taken disconnected the array to nary avail. The prosecution has said they program to question it. To enforce a decease sentence, each 12 jurors indispensable agree. If they do, Judge Scherer volition marque the last decision.