FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the Parkland mass shooting case was postponed Monday until next week, after the lead defense attorney and two other lawyers could not make it to court.
Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer did not publicly discuss the reasons for the lawyers’ absence from the Fort Lauderdale courtroom. Although she did not mention COVID-19, she asked whether one of the attorneys was being “tested.” Prosecutors wore masks in court Monday. Lawyers at the defense table, and defendant Nikolas Cruz, did not.
Scherer said the jury selection process will be postponed for a week and would resume May 9.
