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Juror’s Bombshell Letter and Allegations of ‘Threats’ Rock Parkland Trial<!-- wp:html --><p>Amy Beth Bennett/Getty/Broward County Court</p> <p>Prosecutors filed a motion Thursday evening to interview a juror in <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz-gets-life-sentence-for-parkland-massacre">Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jury-foreman-benjamin-thomas-says-there-was-one-staunch-holdout-in-nikolas-cruz-death-penalty-trial-in-florida">death-penalty trial</a> 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.</p> <p>The jury <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz-gets-life-sentence-for-parkland-massacre">left victims’ parents shocked and angry</a> on Thursday when they <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz-gets-life-sentence-for-parkland-massacre">decided to spare Cruz’s life</a>, instead sentencing him to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.</p> <p>But a juror, referred to in a new court filing only as “Juror X,” put in the call just after they were dismissed on Thursday, and requested to speak with Assistant State Attorney Michael Satz, the trial’s lead prosecutor.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jurors-bombshell-letter-and-allegations-of-threats-rock-parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruzs-death-penalty-trial?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Prosecutors filed a motion Thursday evening 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.

The jury left victims’ parents shocked and angry on Thursday when they decided to spare Cruz’s life, instead sentencing him to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

But a juror, referred to in a new court filing only as “Juror X,” put in the call just after they were dismissed on Thursday, and requested to speak with Assistant State Attorney Michael Satz, the trial’s lead prosecutor.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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