12/25/2022 0 Comments Roger moore spouse![]() ![]() Jurors have already seen the ugly darkness of the Parkland shooter. “They’re not as much about the mind sometimes as they are about the heart.” Still fantasizing about murder “We expect courts to make rational decisions, but death penalty cases tend to be very emotional,” he said. Judge Elizabeth Scherer will deliver legal instructions to jurors before they deliberate, but it comes down to gut feelings, said Stephen Bright, a Yale Law School lecturer and capital case expert. If just one juror on the panel of 12 is convinced his life should be spared, it will be. His school record is every parent’s nightmare, and all of the help he got failed.īut can any tale of woe overcome the jurors’ memories of walking through the crime scene, of hearing, on maximum volume, audio of school girls wailing and gunfire blasting, of witnessing the wreckage of families’ lives that made even Cruz’s own attorney cry? He was allegedly sexually assaulted by a family friend when he was an adolescent. His biological mother was reportedly an alcoholic who may have exposed him to toxins in the womb. He dreaded facing the families in court, and felt like “the most hated man in America” - especially when a potential juror flipped him off, and others burst into tears just seeing him. He said Meadow Pollock, whom he killed, was “a good person” he knew. He wants to set up an anti-bullying club, and a “homicide hotline” for troubled people. He’s sometimes “sad” when he thinks about it. Cruz has nightmares about the bodies he left strewn inside the 1200 Building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. ![]()
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