He took the jury to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Teachers and students testified about watching others die.
He played security videos of the shooting and showed gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos. Satz kept his main case simple, focusing on Cruz's eight months of planning, the seven minutes he stalked the halls of a three-story classroom building, firing 140 shots with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and his escape. “If you do a long rebuttal, that makes jurors think, ‘Maybe the defense really did score some points that I didn’t realize,'” Jarvis said. Any reconsideration won't come until deliberations.
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But in a trial like Cruz's where the decision isn't whether he's guilty but what sentence he deserves, Jarvis believes that by rebuttal each juror knows his or her vote. Jarvis said lawyers too often think that if they just add more witnesses and evidence, that makes their case stronger. Robert Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University's law school, said prosecution experts will also likely testify that even if Cruz’s brain was damaged by his birth mother’s drinking, that’s true of thousands of other Americans and they don’t commit mass murder. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor. Prosecutors will want to reemphasize Cruz “understood exactly” what he was doing during the massacre and could “formulate and carry out a plan,” said David S. 14, 2018, attack at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.Īccording to the National Institutes of Health, people with antisocial personality disorder commit “exploitive, delinquent and criminal behavior with no remorse.” They usually have no regard for others, don’t follow the law, can’t sustain consistent relationships or employment and use manipulation for personal gain, the NIH says. Prosecutor Mike Satz's team is expected to call experts who will testify Cruz has antisocial personality disorder - in lay terms, he’s a sociopath - and fully responsible for his Feb. Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will begin their rebuttal case Tuesday, challenging his attorneys' contention that he murdered 17 people because his birth mother abused alcohol during pregnancy, a condition they say went untreated.
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