A seven-man, five-woman jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
and testimony the prosecution presented over three weeks as it laid out the killings, the defense has spent the first five days of its case trying to show that from the time he was conceived in the womb of a crack-smoking, hard-drinking prostitute he was put on a road that created a killer.His public defenders played video recorded testimony of Browd, who has health issues that prevented her from coming to court.
But by the time Nikolas Cruz was 4, he was throwing tantrums that went beyond what children normally have, she said. “He would stand at the window screaming and crying and I would have to yell at him to get away from the window,” Browd said. “It took a long time to calm him down. He would stand there for a few hours and do this.”
“He couldn't stand up for himself,” Rodriguez said. He had been assigned to special education since kindergarten after being diagnosed with emotional and developmental problems and a speech disability.
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