Sheriff’s deputy charged with neglect in Florida school shooting has strong defence – legal experts

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A sheriff's deputy charged with failing to protect students during a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida high school has a simple defence, some legal experts said - he did not have a duty to save the victims. "There's no crime called refusing to die while a mass murderer is in your school," said Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York City police officer and prosecutor who teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of child neglect, negligence and perjury, and is in jail on $102,000 bond

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