Ultimately, some potential jurors were dismissed after admitting they can’t be impartial to Cruz, who authorities say confessed to killing 17 and wounding 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. The judge ultimately ordered that the arts and crafts be taken away from Cruz, saying he is only allowed to use prison-issued pens. I am trying to keep him calm during this trial.” “Why does he need coloring pencils and drawing paper?” Judge Elizabeth Scherer asked - to which Cruz’s defense attorney, Gabe Ermine, responded, “He’s upset. AP Alleged Parkland school gunman Nikolas Cruz cries at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Oct. AP Nikolas Cruz’s defense attorney, Gabe Ermine, argued he was upset enough to warrant coloring books. Alleged Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz cries in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, courtroom on Oct. We believe that that is something that they’re doing so that the jury perceives that you know, he’s a child, that he has some kind of his mentality is somehow challenged, we think that’s inappropriate and we object,” a prosecutor said. Alleged Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was given coloring pencils in his lawyer’s efforts to cool him down. He has courtroom outbursts down to a fine art.Īccused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s lawyers gave him colored pencils and part of a Pokémon coloring book to soothe him after he burst into tears in court Wednesday, according to reports.īut the move was swiftly challenged by prosecutors and the drawing materials were taken away from him, causing him to sob even harder, according to CBS 12 and images of Cruz.Ĭruz, 23 - who appeared in Fort Lauderdale court on charges that he beat a prison guard - first began weeping, blowing his nose and rubbing his head in anguish after potential jurors cried at the sight of him, according to tweets from Christina Boomer Vazquez, a journalist covering the trial.Ī woman who appeared to be from Cruz’s defense team then handed him a page of a coloring book with the outline of the Pokémon character Pikachu along with the colored pencils to calm him, prompting a legal clash.
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