Testimony: Parkland shooter witnessed dad's death at age 5
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented more testimony that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years.
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Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented more testimony that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years.
Melisa McNeill, Cruz's lead public defender, is expected to give her opening statement Monday, having deferred its presentation from the start of the trial a month ago.
The defense launches its case Monday in the sentencing trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. Can anything render him sympathetic, after what jurors saw and heard over the past month?
Jurors will return to the courtroom Monday to hear, for the first time, the gunman's defense in favor of life in prison.
Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys say fetal alcohol syndrome is one factor that led to the attack. The sides had been poised to argue about qEEG exams this week in advance of the defense beginning its case.