MIAMI — When Mike Satz stood up and approached the jury, he did not raise his voice, bellow about justice or dramatically point his finger at the mass murderer seated a few feet away.
Instead, the career prosecutor calmly delivered an exhaustive account of Nikolas Cruz’s 2018 rampage through a Parkland high school. Satz recalled the number of Cruz’s cellphone used to make videos promising violence, the positioning of each hallway surveillance camera in the freshman building, the number of bullet wounds suffered by each of the 17 murder victims.
He did it all without consulting a single note. Satz even described Cruz’s Smith & Wesson M&P 15 with precision. “TF16214 is the serial number,” Satz told jurors during his opening statement on July 18.
