Prosecutors filed a motion to interview a juror in Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s death-penalty trial after someone on the panel called the state attorney’s office in the wake of the shock verdict to claim they had been threatened by another juror.
, instead sentencing him to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
The motion says a juror told a support staff member that “she received what she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room” during deliberations. The motion says the state attorney’s office did not return the juror’s call, but instead filed a notice to the court. Separately, a letter penned to Judge Elizabeth Scherer was added to the public record late Thursday, providing further insight into the “tense” deliberations.who voted for a life sentence , says she was initially the lone holdout against the death penalty. She also claims she was wrongly accused by other jurors of saying she’d made up her mind to vote against the death penalty even before the trial began.
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