Parkland shooter’s jury search restarts due to judge’s error

By TERRY SPENCER
Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz must start over after the judge declared her own mistake requires it. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled Monday that she should have questioned potential jurors who said they would not follow the law before she dismissed them. The decision nullifies two weeks of work by lawyers for the prosecution and defense. Jury selection will begin anew on Monday. The jury that is eventually chosen will ultimately decide whether Cruz is to be sentenced to death — or receive life without parole — for the murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in 2018.