FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer will be joining her father’s prestigious Fort Lauderdale law firm, teaming up with her brother as the partnership celebrates its 50th anniversary. Scherer resigned from the bench in June after serving as a judge for a decade, culminating in her oversight of the Parkland mass shooting trial’s penalty phase. It was a case .
Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who presided over the sentencing trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, is resigning at the end of next month.
Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who presided over the sentencing trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, is resigning at the end of next month.
Assigned to the bench in 2012, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer generally kept a low profile before she found herself overseeing one of the most prominent cases in the country the Parkland school shootings.