Aurora movie theater shooting day 43: Defense expected to call more doctors who treated James Holmes
Day 43 in the Aurora movie theater shooting trial – People vs. James Eagan Holmes. Today, the defense is expected to call more doctors who treated the gunman after the shooting. During the course of the trial, prosecutors will argue that Holmes, the admitted gunman, was sane when he went into the midnight premiere of the Dark Knight Rises in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater and opened fire on the audience, killing 12 and wounding 70. His defense attorneys will try to spare Holmes’ life by arguing that he was insane. 7NEWS and TheDenverChannel.com will have gavel to gavel coverage of the trial starting at 8:15 a.m. (MST) everyday and ending around 5:30 p.m. (MST) Watch new live video on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/7NewsDenver/live Additional resources:LIVE VIDEO & BLOG: http://bit.ly/theatertrialTIMELINE of the case: http://bit.ly/theatertimelineJURY PROFILE: http://bit.ly/theaterjury CONTINUING COVERAGE: http://bit.ly/theatercoverage
The problem here is that Brauchler is not securing this testimony to object to her testifying as an expert. He's doing it to undermine the weight of her opinions before she even testifies. This is problematic.
Board certification is not the standard for testimony. It's a creature of the last 20 years in medicine. Anyone trained before 1990 is not typically Board certified. She has more education that all the lawyers in that courtroom -- I would think people wouldn't be so quick to dismiss her.
King just said to his co-lawyers...."She won't be allowed to testify at this rate." Seriously King...turn your mic off. Geez. Thanks for your thoughts though!
Is it possible that this is a surprise for the DT as well? They seemed shocked. In fact I literally heard some loud whisper. "She's not even board certified in anything!?"
Oh my gosh, I'm dying laughing/crying right now. Laughing because she just cooked her own goose, but crying because dang....you'd think they'd've found a better "star witness" than this!