Judge: Jurors Can See School Shooter’s Instagram Photos

Judge: Jurors Can See School Shooter’s Instagram Photos
Nikolas Cruz speaks with capital defense attorney Casey Secor during a hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 24, 2022. Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday.

Nikolas Cruz wanted others to see photographs he posted without restrictions of himself with guns and the jurors who will decide whether to recommend the death penalty for the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland can see them, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled.