On Monday, a potential juror told Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that commitments to her “sugar daddy” precluded her from sitting on the panel that will decide whether convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison without parole or be put to death, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
The task of seating 12 jurors and eight alternates for the sentencing trial of Cruz, now 23, who killed 17 students and staff members and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb.
It will be difficult to find jurors without an opinion,” retired Miami-Dade County senior prosecutor Gail Levine, who is not involved in the case, told the newspaper.
“July seventh, July fourth, and July 18,” the woman said.
The first two months of the trial are expected to be devoted to finding jurors, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
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