Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer refused to step down from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting case Monday, dismissing a defense demand filed Friday as “legally insufficient.”
It’s the only comment a judge is allowed to make when asked to recuse oneself, and Scherer did it in writing, handing copies of her ruling to attorneys on both sides without addressing it in open court.
Confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz appeared in court on Monday along with his legal team from the Broward Public Defender’s Office, prosecutors and the judge, who are wrangling over what the state will and will not be allowed to say during its rebuttal case, which gets underway next week.
