She said she had been friendly with Cruz's lead attorney, assistant public defender Melisa McNeill and members of her team before the case, but during four years of pretrial motions, three months of jury selection and the three-month trial "they lost their perspective." She and McN...
The defense at hearings this week will try to convince Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that Center and other experts should be allowed to testify at Cruz's ongoing trial about what their tests showed, something the prosecution wants barred. "He had some sort of epiphan...
To gunman Nikolas Cruz, she said, “I have never uttered your name, and I never will,” addressing him as the “confessed, convicted Parkland mass murderer” in court. She said Cruz’s “notoriety is over today.” Beigel Schulman thanked the judge and the prosecution team. She told the ...
In its filing, the prosecution said that, among the aggravating factors spurring its decision, were that Cruz knowingly created a risk of death for many people, his crime was aimed at hindering “any government function or the enforcement of laws” and that the shooting was “especially heinous...