On the day jury selection was set to begin, a felony perjury charge against former Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was dropped by the state attorney’s office.
Runcie was indicted in April 2021, accused of lying to a statewide grand jury that investigated events surrounding the 2018 Parkland high school massacre, which left 17 people dead.
Agreement avoids trial, ends four-year legal battle
Four years later, Runcie and prosecutors reached a resolution in which he acknowledged making untrue statements but did not admit to perjury. As part of the agreement, Runcie must pay prosecution costs and avoid any violations of the law for six months.
Runcie’s attorney, Mike Dutko, called the resolution “a great relief.”…