From [HERE] After a month-long sentencing hearing, a Florida jury Thursday recommended that Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without parole. The prosecution raised aggravating factors like the “heinous” and “calculated” nature of the killings while the defense argued that the mitigating circumstances of Cruz’s troubled background and upbringing only warranted a life sentence.

The jury found that Cruz was eligible for the death penalty on every count but did not unanimously agree to recommend a death sentence; therefore, they defaulted to life without parole. Jury foreman Benjamin Thomas told local news, “there was one [juror] with a hard no – she couldn’t do it” and that “there was another two that ended up voting the same way.” Thomas explained that some of the jurors felt that Cruz’s mental health and other mitigating circumstances precluded him from receiving the death penalty.

In a notice filed after the sentence announcement, a juror approached the court and said she was threatened by a fellow juror during deliberations. The notice calls on Judge Elizabeth Scherer to order law enforcement to investigate and interview the juror. The court notice does not reveal the identity of the juror nor which sentence the juror supported.

This ruling is only a recommendation. The official sentencing hearing will be held on Tuesday, November 1. Victims and family member are expected to deliver impact statements before the court delivers the sentence.

You would think that an actual criminal defense trial on the merits took place. BUT HE ALREADY PLED GUILTY. Cruz pled guilty last October to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Parkland shooting. That triggered the current phase of his trial, which is meant only to determine his sentence; specifically whether he will be sentenced to die.

A guilty plea is just a guilty plea - it is not proof that anything happened in any case. A guilty plea is a way to avoid an actual trial or avoid having to prove that a crime took place. The guilty plea here doesn’t prove that Mr. Cruz committed a massacre or that Parkland happened - its just a plea, nothing more. If an actual, contested criminal defense trial had taken place the Government would have had the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a massacre took place and Mr. Cruz committed it. That is, the Government would have had to show that Parkland was real - with actual authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations, investigation and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide on the merits. But that never happened. Nevertheless, in The Spectacle The Dependent Media goes on implying that “a trial” is presently being conducted. Similarly, “Sandy Hoax” was not proven to be real simply because a court entered default judgments against Alex Jones when he failed to respond to court orders in lawsuits.

The hearing was a sentencing - not an actual criminal trial on the merits. [MORE] The Dependent Media is promoting confusion because the Parkland episode looks staged.

Due to the contrived nature of the Parkland narrative, voluntary confession, many fake looking/sounding media interviews with in-credible witnesses providing inconsistent facts, a lack of corroborating forensic evidence, a lack of cell-phone video from high school students, miraculously quick medical recoveries by kids shot in the chest, books that deflected bullets and more, many consider Parkland a false flag operation or cover story. Belief isn’t needed to come to such a conclusion- go watch the many videos online about it. On the other hand however, belief is needed to conclude that an actual massacre occurred because the evidence has never been seen. We must believe cops and whatever emotional words the media put before our eyes. It takes absolutely no intelligence to believe.

The fact that there was no trial only strengthens the doubt of persons who don’t blindly believe whatever the media says. In all microwave terror episodes the media simply parrot whatever police say from a crime scene closed to the public in an instantly open and shut case. To be clear here, no criminal trial means no contested, adversarial proceeding in which the government would have to establish facts beyond a reasonable doubt with actual, admissible, authenticated evidence and credible witness testimony that is subjected to rigorous cross -examination, rules of evidence, discovery, Brady disclosures and the defendant’s right to face to face confrontation with his accusers. What better way could there be to drop any doubt as to whether this fake looking bullshit ever took place? [MORE]