U.S. Criminal Jesters System
Posted on 02/16/2020 8:03:41 AM PST by Hojczyk
A hearing was held Thursday to consider the arguments by defense lawyers that the case was moving far too rapidly. They claimed legal errors could occur that would result in a reversal on appeal and trigger yet another high-profile trial.
Prosecutors had been pushing to have the trial begin with jury selection beginning Jan. 27. Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer had insisted on keeping that date for probably the biggest trial in the county's history, but on Thursday said she would delay the start.
Schere said she now wants the trial to begin in summer 2020.
In a court filing Wednesday, prosecutors “in an abundance of caution” said they would not object if the trial starts a few months later, in May.
Cruz, 21, faces 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Valentine's Day 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He faces the death penalty if convicted, although his lawyers say he will plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.
In their motion, defense lawyers noted that of 38 capital punishment cases in Broward County since 1994, the average time they remained pending between arrest and trial was 52 months, or a little over four years.
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This trail will be a wind fall for the lawyers ...Should have been done in one month
“...defense lawyers that the case was moving far too rapidly..”
Too rapidly? Two years? What a sick joke of a system. The scumbag should have been executed the next day at dawn.
Justice in this country is a joke.
At all levels.
He faces the death penalty if convicted, although his lawyers say he will plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.
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This trial is all about whether he gets the death penalty. There is no question of his guilt.
Some of the victims would prefer the deal. They don’t want to relive the tragedy.
“case is moving too fast” is lawyerspeak for “we haven’t drained the money source yet.”
Trial? It’s so cute they still do stuff like that! When did this particular left wing democrat failure theater actually transpire. 2017? 2018?
If they can’t get it done in a month or two, forget it.
The man who attempted to assassinate President-Elect FDR and who missed and killed Chicago mayor Cermak. The shooting was in Feb. 1933. Cermak died on March 6, 1933. Zangara, the assassin was executed by electric chair on March 20, 1933.
This was within living memory. A guy in the same state murders 17 kids. I have heard of no doubts about his guilt, yet the trial can’t even begin for 2 years?
too many lawyers involved.
I am sorry, but pleading guilty to premeditated murder or premeditated attempted murder should not take the death penalty off the table.
U.S. Criminal Jesters System
Our Elite puppetmasters need to milk the Jesters System for all the taxpeasant cash they can get...
The last sentence is even more disturbing: average time from arrest to trial in Broward County murder cases is 4 years and 4 months! Whatever happened to the 6th Amendment: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ...” I suppose that the accused can waive that to his advantage and the victims or victims’ survivors can be left waiting for justice for as long as the lawyers can milk the money supply.
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