Judge Scherer has also ruled for the prosecution in other important matters, including allowing a possible jury walk-through of the school building where the shooting took place and limiting how much public defenders can tell jurors about government agencies’ failures in dealing with Mr.
Another judge had deemed the memo confidential. The defendant accused of murder in the police corporals death told Superior Court Judge Ricardo Crdova that Paulo Virgen Mendoza is his real name Virgen is. An appeals court removed her, and she no longer handles cases or warrants from the Hollywood Police Department.Įarly in the Parkland case, public defenders sought Judge Scherer’s removal after she sent prosecutors a memo about the defenders’ attempts to visit Mr. Judge Scherer is a graduate of Florida State University and the University of Miami School of Law.Īfter her first marriage ended in divorce, she married a police detective, which became an issue in 2016 when she declined to recuse herself from a case investigated by his department. Scherer was also a member of the circuit judicial nominating commission until his daughter decided to seek an appointment. Bush’s lawyers during the presidential election recount in 2000. Scherer, co-founded the Conrad & Scherer law firm and was one of George W.
Enough serious errors could lead to the reversal of a death sentence on appeal, forcing a retrial years from now. Both the prosecution and the defense said the judge seriously erred in April when she dismissed a group of potential jurors without individually questioning them. At one point, defense lawyers tried to withdraw - and then asked the judge to remove herself, which she declined to do - after she insisted that the process continue even when a member of the defense team was out sick with Covid-19. Jury selection, which took nearly three months, was marred by confusion and controversies, including closely scrutinized decisions by Judge Scherer. Cruz’s sentence after the jury recommends death or life in prison - has already proven complicated.
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Her cases had not drawn much attention.īut Judge Scherer’s first death penalty case - she will impose Mr. The judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has dismissed a juror who joked with a courtroom deputy about why Kenosha, Wisconsin, police shot Jacob Blake the incident that prompted the. Scherer was little known outside of the Circuit Court in Broward County, Fla., before she was randomly assigned to the Nikolas Cruz case after the Parkland shooting.
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