Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial is about to begin.
A judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys are scheduled on Monday to screen the first candidates for the 12-member panel that will decide if Nikolas Cruz is executed or gets life in prison.
Court officials say 1,500 candidates or more could be brought before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and the gunman's public defenders for initial screening over the next several weeks.For most of the next several weeks, prospective jurors will be brought into the courtroom in groups of 60, about four per day.They will then be asked if they are available from June through September. Out of each group, Scherer is hoping five remain.
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