FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photos to his Instagram account before committing a massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a judge ruled Monday.
The photos can be shown to the jury in the penalty phase of the trial next month, when jurors will decide whether he should be sentenced to death.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the 2018 attack on the Parkland school. Because the state has refused to take possibility of a death sentence off the table, a jury must be seated and decide Cruz’s fate.
