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☆ Musk says 'possible' that Twitter gave preference to leftists during Brazil election
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Electronic voting machine is seen during the digital signature and sealing operation of the electoral systems that will be used in the Brazilian presidential election in Brasilia, Brazil August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File PhotoSAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media firm gave preference to left-wing candidates during Brazil's election this year, without providing evidence. "I've seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," Musk wrote on Twitter when asked by a user about elections possibly "handled" by the company's previous management. "If those tweets are accurate, it's possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates," added the billionaire. Both Lula and Bolsonaro widely used Twitter during their campaigns.

☆ Top Hollywood lawyer Bryan Freedman paid a $40,000 settlement after being accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old while in college
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But clients may not know that Freedman, 58, was accused of sexual assault in the 1980s and paid a $40,000 settlement to the accuser. She said that instead of taking her there, the men brought her to the nearby Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The plaintiff said she and her friend then returned to Zeta Beta Tau to retrieve her shoe and car key. The 17-year-old and her parents sued Freedman and the two other fraternity brothers, as well as Zeta Beta Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon. (Zeta Beta Tau and the other college students accused of sexual assault also agreed to pay settlements, none of which admitted liability.)

☆ Parkland school shooter expected to get life in prison without parole after emotional victims’ statements
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Following dramatic statements from victims and victims' families, a Florida judge is expected to formally sentence Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz to life in prison without parole Wednesday for the 2018 campus massacre that killed 14 students and three staff members. Amy Beth Bennett / Pool/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP fileProsecutors had sought the death penalty, while the defense had asked for life in prison. The jury’s decision on Oct. 13 shook family members of victims who were visibly distraught by the verdict. On Tuesday, survivors of the shooting and victims’ loved ones had the chance to deliver impact statements before the sentence was formally announced. “Whatever pain you experience in prison will unfortunately be a fraction of what Ben endured,” his father, Eric Wikander, said.

☆ Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Is Expected to Get Life Without Parole
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nikolas Cruz is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for the murders of 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school in 2018, concluding a case that was emotionally grueling for victims’ families and whose outcome left them fuming. A jury in October spared him the death penalty and instead recommended that he spend the rest of his life in prison. At the request of prosecutors, Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer scheduled a hearing that began Tuesday to allow victims’ family members to express themselves before the court and the defendant. It is scheduled to resume Wednesday, and once concluded, the judge is expected to sentence Cruz.

☆ Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Sentenced to Life Without Parole
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for the murders of 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school in 2018, concluding a case that was emotionally grueling for victims’ families and whose outcome left them fuming. A jury in October spared him the death penalty and instead recommended that he spend the rest of his life in prison. At the request of prosecutors, Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer scheduled a two-day hearing that began Tuesday to allow victims’ family members to express themselves before the court and the defendant.

Nov 2 (Reuters) - A Florida judge was due to formally sentence Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a school in Parkland, to life in prison on Wednesday. A jury voted last month to spare Cruz, 24, the death penalty, instead choosing life in prison without possibility of parole for one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Cruz pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder, then faced the three-month penalty trial earlier this year. A number of victims' relatives castigated the jury's decision and criticized a state law requirement that all 12 jurors be unanimous in order to sentence a convicted person to be executed. Many victims' relatives directly addressed Cruz, who sat inscrutable behind large spectacles and a COVID-19 mask at a table alongside his public defenders.

☆ Parkland school shooter faces victims in court in sentencing hearing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The sentencing of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz began Tuesday with victims and family members sharing their heartbreak before him in court. With so many who wish to be heard, the actual sentencing is expected to take place Wednesday, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office. Stacey Lippel, a teacher at Parkland who was shot and survived, told Cruz: “You don’t know me but you tried to kill me." “Whatever pain you experience in prison will unfortunately be a fraction of what Ben endured,” his father, Eric Wikander, said. The jury’s recommendation of life in prison last month, was met with tears and outrage by family members of the victims, with many saying the shooter deserved the death penalty.

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Grieving relatives of the 17 students and teachers killed in a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, confronted the killer, Nikolas Cruz, with tearful, angry words as his sentencing hearing began on Tuesday. The jury voted to spare Cruz from the death penalty for one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, a decision several survivors' relatives decried in court as injustice. [1/4] Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz enters the courtroom for the sentencing hearing in Cruz’s trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, U.S. on Monday, Nov. 1, 2022. Cruz was 19 at the time of his attack and had been expelled from the school. Florida law requires that Scherer must follow the jury's recommendation in formally sentencing Cruz.

☆ Florida prosecutors file motion to interview Parkland shooter trial juror after alleged threat from co-juror
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Prosecutors in the high-profile Parkland school shooter trial have filed a motion to have law enforcement interview a juror who reported feeling threatened by a peer on the panel. The motion by the Broward County State Attorney's Office was filed Thursday evening. According to the motion, a juror referred to as “Juror X” called the state attorney’s office around 2 p.m. and requested to speak with Assistant State Attorney Michael Satz, the lead prosecutor in the trial. The motion requests that law enforcement, rather than the court, conduct the interview with Juror X. Ultimately the aggravating factors did not outweigh the mitigating factors, the jury found, and the shooter was sentenced to life.

☆ Watch: Jan. 6 Committee Votes to Subpoena Former President Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Family Members of Parkland Victims React to Nikolas Cruz Verdict Family members of victims in the Parkland school shooting responded on Thursday after a Florida jury recommended life imprisonment without parole for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Photo: Amy Beth Bennett/Press Pool

☆ Unseen Jan. 6 Video Shows Lawmakers Respond to Capitol Attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Ron DeSantis said it's a 'miscarriage of justice' that the Parkland shooter got a life sentence instead of the death penalty
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis weighed in on the jury's verdict on the Parkland shooter. Ron DeSantis says the Parkland shooter should have been given the death penalty and not a life sentence in prison. "I think that — if you have a death penalty at all — this is a case where you're massacring those students with premeditation, in utter disregard for basic humanity, that you deserve the death penalty," DeSantis said. Jury foreman Benjamin Thomas told CBS Miami that all but one of the twelve jurors thought the gunman should be given the death penalty. All the jurors would have had to unanimously agree to recommend the death penalty.

☆ Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz spared death penalty. Victims' families might be better off.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Emilia Benton | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Though many were shocked he didn’t receive the death penalty, and many victims’ family members were visibly upset by the decision, it’s wrong to assume this would have automatically brought them solace. The lengthy proceedings stirred up decades-old memories of waiting to find out whether my own mother’s murderer would receive the death penalty. It’s the prime example people use when they’re surprised to learn I’m not fervently in favor of the death penalty. Sometimes family members of victims do have clear-cut feelings that the death penalty is needed. It’s time for everyone in this country, from lawmakers to the general public, to prioritize the effect of the death penalty on a victim’s survivors over their own political ideologies.

A jury reached its decision Thursday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, who gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The trial was to decide whether to sentence him to life in prison or the death penalty. The decision by the 12-person jury was determined about three months after opening statements began July 18 and after the jury received deliberation instructions Wednesday. The jury has to reach a unanimous decision for the death sentence. The gunman, then 19, had stormed the high school on Valentine’s Day wielding an AR-15-style rifle and releasing a spray of bullets.

☆ Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz Sentenced to Life Without Parole
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nikolas Cruz was spared the death penalty by a jury for the murders of 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school in 2018. Instead, the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without parole. Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer set a sentencing hearing for Nov. 1 after prosecutors said all victims, including those who survived the shooting, have a right to express what they think the appropriate sentence should be.

☆ Parkland School Shooting Jury Recommends Life in Prison for Nikolas Cruz
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nikolas Cruz was spared the death penalty by a jury for the murders of 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school in 2018. Instead, the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without parole. Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer set a sentencing hearing for Nov. 1 after prosecutors said all victims who survived the shooting have a right to express what they think the appropriate sentence should be.

☆ Jury Starts Deliberating Fate of Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nikolas Cruz stands during the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Tuesday. Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether Nikolas Cruz , who shot and killed 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school in 2018, should receive the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer delivered instructions on the law to the 12-person jury before they headed to the jury room. Their deliberations over Cruz’s sentence come three months after both sides began presenting evidence in the trial, including graphic images of the carnage and emotional testimony from survivors of the shooting—all while victims’ families watched in the courtroom.

☆ Florida jury says man who confessed to Parkland school shooting should be sentenced to death
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Brian Ellsworth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Pool via REUTERSOct 13 (Reuters) - Jurors determined Thursday that Nikolas Cruz should be sentenced to death for a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. Jurors determined in at least one of the murders that there were aggravating factors that would support a death sentence, but in other cases they did not. Cruz, 24, had pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Under Florida law, a death sentence could only have been handed down if jurors had unanimously recommended he be executed. The Parkland shooting had led to renewed calls for tighter gun control in the United States.

☆ Jury recommends life in prison for Parkland school shooter
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailJury recommends life in prison for Parkland school shooterCNBC's Valerie Castro reports on the jury's decision to recommend life in prison for the shooter in the Parkland school shooting, Nikolas Cruz, and the reaction from victims' families.

Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Fort Lauderdale. After hearing her instructions, the jurors were escorted from the courtroom to begin sequestered deliberations. Scherer had counseled jurors on Tuesday to bring "at least a few days" of clothing and medication to have with them during deliberations. Scherer took about an hour Wednesday to instruct the jurors on the law governing their decision. In his guilty plea, he said he was "very sorry" and asked to be given a chance to help others.

Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Fort Lauderdale. The Valentine's Day school shooting was among the deadliest in U.S. history. Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer recommended that jurors take "at least a few days" of clothing and medication. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. Cruz was 19 and had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas at the time of the massacre.

☆ Judge in Parkland school shooter case refuses to step down
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

There was “absolutely no chance” Scherer would quit the case, said Bob Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s law school. Scherer, a former prosecutor, had never overseen a first-degree murder trial before being assigned the Cruz case. The prosecution, having expected the defense case to last much longer, wasn’t prepared to begin its rebuttal case. “This is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case,” Scherer said. “If I would have known earlier this was going to be happening, I would not have dragged you in here,” Scherer told the jurors.

☆ 'Revealing' teen costumes, on-set massages, and a gender-discrimination complaint: Inside Dan Schneider's 'disgusting' Nickelodeon empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-30 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

For many Nickelodeon actors, life at the network was surreal, the "Amanda Show" actor Raquel Lee told Insider. Schneider set up a meeting to discuss the situation. On the one hand, the success of Schneider's shows provided rare stability in a chaotic industry. None of Schneider's shows credited more than two female writers in the entirety of their runs; "Zoey 101" and "Drake & Josh" had zero. The writer wrote that Schneider once pressured her into simulating "being sodomized" while she was telling a story about high school, to her embarrassment.

☆ Here are all the companies led by Elon Musk and what they do — from digging tunnels to making brain implants
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-10 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

As if all that wasn't enough, Elon Musk reached a deal in April to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The deal hasn't closed yet, but Musk has shared some thoughts publicly — and privately to investors — that indicate what some of the company's direction and priorities would be under his ownership. Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesSource: Insider

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