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Post by pat on Jul 26, 2023 12:24:58 GMT -5
Even though Cruz was guilty and everyone knew it, the judge did show a lot of favoritism toward the prosecution. If she didn't have the ability to be objective, she should never have run for the position of circuit judge. She resigned after the defense lawyer objected to her serving as judge because she knew that's what every defense attorney would do.
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Post by kitty on Aug 26, 2023 16:52:24 GMT -5
I've heard that the State of Florida won't say where Nikolas Cruz is being held in prison. If true, why not? Florida is known for giving out all kinds of personal information about people.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 26, 2023 21:53:56 GMT -5
I've heard that the State of Florida won't say where Nikolas Cruz is being held in prison. If true, why not? Florida is known for giving out all kinds of personal information about people. Numerous people want him dead, so prison officials are keeping his location confidential because they’re afraid someone will arrange for an another inmate to kill him.
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Post by steve on Aug 27, 2023 11:11:06 GMT -5
Numerous people want him dead, so prison officials are keeping his location confidential because they’re afraid someone will arrange for an another inmate to kill him. But couldn't someone arrange for another inmate to kill anyone in prison?
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 27, 2023 15:15:25 GMT -5
But couldn't someone arrange for another inmate to kill anyone in prison? Of course, but while very few would risk taking out a hit on most convicted killers, there are dozens who want Cruz dead, and because of the number, it would be extremely difficult for law enforcement to identify those involved.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 9, 2024 9:14:08 GMT -5
Parkland Shooter Agrees to Give Up Name and BrainIn a unique civil settlement reached with one of his victims, mass shooter Nikolas Cruz has agreed to donate his brain to science. Alex Arreaza, attorney for 21-year-old Anthony Borges, one of the Parkland victims who survived, proposed the unusual agreement. “I figured if scientists studied his brain they might be able to figure out what created this monster,” he explained. “Maybe there was some kind of imbalance that caused this that we can prevent in the future.”
The agreement also gives Borges the right to Cruz’s name for use in movies, books and other media. “We didn’t want him to be able to continue torturing the families,” Arreaza added, referencing O.J. Simpson’s book If I Did It. The now 25-year-old killer, who is serving life in prison, cannot profit from his crimes and must obtain permission from Borges prior to giving any interviews.
Borges, who was 15 on February 14, 2017, the day Cruz opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, barricaded a door with his body to prevent the shooter’s entering the classroom where numerous students cowered in fear.
Following the settlement Arreaza commented that one “could see what a psychopath he [Cruz] is. He looked at Rory when we were all done and asked if he could apologize, and Nikolas apologized to him like they had been in a car accident together. It was just very cold and weird.”
Before the shooting, Borges was a promising soccer player. Unfortunately, severe wounds to his legs and torso, which have necessitated more than a dozen surgeries, has left him disabled. Borges also will receive $430,000 that Cruz is expected to receive from his mother’s life insurance policy.
In a prior settlement, the Broward County Public School District paid $26 million to victims of the shooting, $1.25 million of which went to Borges. An undisclosed settlement from the FBI for its failure to prevent Cruz’s rampage despite at least two warnings also went to Borges.
Additionally, there are pending lawsuits against Scot Peterson, dubbed the “Coward of Broward” for his failure to take action when the shooting started, and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Scott Israel, who was fired for his incompetence by Governor Ron DeSantis, was more interested in diversity and political correctness than in training his officers, and when the shooting started, no one knew what to do. Captain Jan Jordan, the officer in charge, whom Israel hired and promoted because she was female and gay, was totally clueless, and Nikolas Cruz (above) was able to go from classroom to classroom killing and maiming at his leisure.
Scott Herndon, an attorney in Berkeley, Calif., who has represented victims in other mass shootings, called the settlement novel. “I’ve never heard of anything like this before,” he said. “It’s pretty unique. It underscores the feeling of those left behind that whatever can be done to avoid these massacres in the future should be done.”Sources: Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, July 9, 2024; WTSP, and Broward County Clerk of Court.
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Post by catherine on Jul 9, 2024 14:20:59 GMT -5
I don't see the point of this. When Cruz was sentenced, the judge said he couldn't even keep money people sent him to purchase items from the prison commissary, that it would all go toward restitution, so if he did earn any money from interviews or a book, he wouldn't be able to keep it.
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Post by serena on Jul 11, 2024 5:25:54 GMT -5
I don't see the point of this. When Cruz was sentenced, the judge said he couldn't even keep money people sent him to purchase items from the prison commissary, that it would all go toward restitution, so if he did earn any money from interviews or a book, he wouldn't be able to keep it. I don't know a lot about the law, but I've read about what's called a "Son of Sam Law" that keeps criminals from profiting from their crimes. So how did O.J. profit from his book?
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Post by JoannaL on Jul 11, 2024 7:51:16 GMT -5
I don't know a lot about the law, but I've read about what's called a "Son of Sam Law" that keeps criminals from profiting from their crimes. So how did O.J. profit from his book? First, O.J. was acquitted, so technically, he wasn't profiting from his crime. Of course, we all know he was guilty as sin, but even had he been convicted, as he should have been, in 1991, the U.S. Supreme overturned the Son of Sam Law, finding it was inconsistent with the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech.
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