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US: Author of 17 Florida High School Murders in 2018 Will Plead Guilty

The next week, the young man who confessed to the police to be the author of the massacre perpetrated in a Parkland high school, Florida, on February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz, will plead guilty to the charges that are imputed to him for the death of 17 people, as detailed this Friday by his lawyers.

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The judge Elizabeth Scherer, from county circuit courts Broward (on from Florida, USA), set a hearing for that purpose for next Wednesday after Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty today to an assault on a guard that occurred in November 2018 in jail.

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Cruz He was present with his lawyers at the hearing on Friday, which was surrounded by great expectation since it had previously been leaked to the media that the young man was going to plead guilty to 17 murders and 17 assassination attempts for the massacre that occurred in the Escuela Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (MSJ).

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The leak led the Prosecutor’s Office to say that it had not reached an agreement with the defense in relation to the charges it faces for those events and that its guilty plea will not prevent a jury from ruling and it could be sentenced to capital punishment. .

The young man, who was a student at the institute MSJ but he was expelled for misconduct and had an arsenal of weapons in his home, he was arrested the same day of the shooting, in which 17 people died, 14 of them students, and he confessed to the Police that he was the author.

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Since then he has been imprisoned in a Broward awaiting a trial that has been delayed several times for various reasons including the COVID-19 pandemic.

His defense, which is handled by public defenders, has proposed several times to the Prosecutor’s Office an agreement to ask Cruz for life imprisonment in exchange for pleading guilty, but the accusers always answered no.

The Venezuelan Patricia Oliver, mother of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students who lost their lives in the massacre, told EFE this Friday that he prefers life imprisonment, due to personal convictions and because he believes it implies “greater suffering“For the condemned.

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