Hearing set abruptly in 2018 Florida school massacre case

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<b>Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool, File</b><br/><br/>

Posted at 1:05 AM, Oct 15, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-15 02:05:01-04

A tribunal proceeding is planned Friday successful Florida for Nikolas Cruz, the antheral constabulary said has confessed to the 2018 massacre of 17 radical astatine a precocious school.

The proceeding successful Broward County Circuit Court was scheduled abruptly Thursday and does not picture the purpose. But WSVN-TV reported without citing sources by sanction that Cruz volition plead blameworthy to each 17 execution counts against him and 17 counts of attempted murder.

A assemblage would inactive determine whether Cruz gets the decease punishment oregon beingness successful prison. The Broward County authorities attorney’s bureau said defence lawyers would person to remark connected immoderate imaginable blameworthy plea.

Cruz's lawyers did not instantly respond to calls, texts and emails seeking comment.