The preliminary stage of jury selection in the trial of the Florida school massacre suspect on charges that he attacked a jail guard concluded Wednesday, but not before attorneys clashed over whether Nikolas Cruz should be allowed to draw using colored pencils to avoid getting upset. Prosecutor Maria Schneider accused Cruz’s attorneys of giving him the colored pencils to make the suspected killer of 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in February 2018 appear sympathetic before the prospective jurors. Cruz's attorneys gave him the pencils after the 23-year-old became visibly upset when a woman in Wednesday's first group of 32 prospects began crying after seeing him — the third time that happened over two days of preliminary screening.
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School shooting suspect becomes upset during brawl trial
