Parkland Massacre: Nikolas Cruz's lawyer no longer wants to defend his client

Public prosecutor Nikolas Cruz, the author confessed to the mbadacre of 17 people in a school in Parkland, Florida, asked that the case be closed. because your client will receive an inheritance and will not need free defense, according to court documents.

L & # 39; lawyer Howard Finkelstein, Broward County Public Defender, motion Wednesday night asking to withdraw from the case because Cruz is beneficiary of half of the life insurance valued at $ 865,000.

In the American judicial system, When a defendant can not afford to pay a lawyer, the court badigns him a public defender.

According to the local newspaper Sun Sentinel, who just won the prize Pulitzer for his coverage of the Parkland shootoutCruz may not see this money because relatives of the victims and survivors have already sued in civil courts.

The money would be shared between Nikolas and his younger brother, Zachary. It is thought that it comes from the life insurance of the mother, who died in November 2017.

The trial was scheduled to begin in January of next year, but If private lawyers are awarded, the case will necessarily be postponed.

"It will only cause more delays. I am furiously angry right now. "said Fred Guttenberg, Jaime's father, died in the shooting at the age of 14.

February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, north of Miami, with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. He is charged with 17 counts of homicide and 17 counts of attempted murder.