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Title: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 10, 2018, 11:50:16 AM

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-reg-florida-school-shooting-standing-mute-20180308-story.html

Nikolas Cruz has withdrawn his not guilty plea and intends to "stand mute" (not enter any plea) as a strategy to try to avoid the death penalty. I didn't know you could do that.

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Frank Castle on March 10, 2018, 01:08:28 PM

Death penalty or a sex-toy, that a hard decision. 

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: TommyGunn on March 10, 2018, 06:48:14 PM

Nolo contendre,  IIRC.   It's not new.   I thought it had been arranged he WA going to plead guilty ,   thus avoiding the death penalty.  I guess I was wrong. 

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 10, 2018, 07:52:09 PM

Nolo contendere is a well-known concept, and the media has always used it. Nolo contendere is a plea -- in this case, if I understand the article correctly and the author understands the defense attorney correctly, they don't intend to enter any plea at all. They intend to stand mute. Functionally, that may be equivalent to nolo contendere, but since they made a big deal about standing mute, I think there must be some difference.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Plea+of+nolo+contendere

https://legaldictionary.net/nolo-contendere/

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Andiron on March 10, 2018, 07:53:14 PM

It should be a formality at this point.  He's guilty as hell,  get a rope.

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 10, 2018, 11:31:13 PM

What was the NRA's plea?

Title: Re: Florida shooter withdraws plea
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 11, 2018, 12:24:18 AM

Quote from: fistful on March 10, 2018, 11:31:13 PM

What was the NRA's plea?

In absentia