FORT LAUDERDALE - The jury in the penalty trial of Parkland school gunman Nikolas Cruz will resume deliberations on Thursday. Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to the murders of 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14th, 2018. The trial has only been to determine his sentence. Jury deliberations - Day 1 On Wednesday, they deliberated for about six hours, including asking to have read back to them the prosecution's cross-examination of a defense psychologist Dr. Paul Connor who said Cruz suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. They also asked for a read back of Dr. Robert Denny's testimony, he was the neuropsychologist who interviewed Cruz in jail. After hearing Connor's testimony, jurors decided not to hear Denney's again. Late in the day, they asked to examine Cruz's AR-15 rifle. That led to an exchange between the prosecution and Judge Elizabeth Scherer. The prosecution objected to it bei...
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