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Aurora movie theater shooting day 44: Schizophrenia expert Dr. Raquel Gur returns to the stand
Day 44 in the Aurora movie theater shooting trial – People vs. James Eagan Holmes. Today, schizophrenia expert Dr. Raquel Gur will continue to testify.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/7NewsDenv... 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
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I'm getting anxious for King to stop and GB to get up there and bring some common sense back to this. -
I wonder what Dr, Gur would say if it was her child or grandchild that was slaughtered by JH? -
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IMO Dr. Gur strikes me as a dr that gets inside her clients heads. She sees what they see, feel, etc. and again IMO she's had hundreds of clients with mental illness and her description absolutely mirrors JH's thoughts and resulting action. It absolutely doesn't make his wrong a right though so I know we are ALL looking forward to AC.
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Interesting fact: While Dr. Gur worked on the Unabomber case, Dr. Resnick worked with the prosecution on that case. HMMMM......I'd love to see an intellectual debate between these two! -
If there had been an armed gunman at the door of the theater, the defendant would have continued "his mission," Dr. Gur testified. -
I wish there was a way to read comments without them scrolling down automatically. I've been working and listening, but now trying to catch up on comments and I start to read and then they roll away. Oh boy! Sense I can't read to catch up, can someone tell me why people think she's not helping the DT? I didn't hear that.
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They are going round and round keep repeating things over again
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Think I am gonna bail on this Puke testimony. This is disgusting,Hired gun and the PT just lets em into the trap. The PT is gonna shred this. The DT knows it, and just dragging it out.
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Command Voice...NO ONE else has ever heard this from any expert...with Reid he specifically denied a Command Voice...now I am calling BS!
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Alrighty. I must have these psychotic delusions.... a alien thought keeps telling me that ice cream sandwiches want me to eat them. lol
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Dr. Gur really comes across as a pompous know-it-all. She obviously knows a great deal about the technical details of schizophrenia, but she can't seem to resist promoting the idea that she also knows everything about James Holmes and his motivations. Mr. Brauchler must be licking his chops about now.
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Anybody drawing a similiar tactic being used as was used at the Nuremburg trials?
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I actually very much like Dr. Gur and find her credible in her belief that JH suffers from schizophrenia. Problem is that it matters little. Bottom line - did he know what he was doing was wrong and could he control himself. I think there's plenty of evidence he knew it was wrong (even calling Fenton's office) and he obviously controlled his urges for some length of time since it wasn't a "snap" decision and required extensive planning. I think Brauchler is going to tear apart her testimony.
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Juror has a migraine... needs a break to get glasses and medicine.
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unlike any of the other dr. JH spoke to She seems to be testifying for JH.
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This is not going to go well with Brauchler if she can't remember like Dr. Woodcock couldn't remember.
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Just found some information I found interesting and thought I'd share it: Dr. Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist based in Scottsdale, Arizona, said Holmes’ appearance is consistent with someone who is mentally ill and on psychotropic medications — drugs that affect mental activity, mood, conduct and perception.
“The behavior that you are seeing in court is an absolute byproduct of the nature and extent of his mental illness and whatever psychotropic medications he may or may not be taking,” said Pitt, who often works on criminal cases but isn’t involved in the Holmes trial.
Pitt said it was impossible to know, simply by observing Holmes, how aware he is of the proceedings — that would require a conversation with him. But since Holmes was found mentally competent to stand trial as part of his first sanity examination, he probably understands what’s going on and can help with his defense, Pitt said. -
Gur is educated, but also extremely intelligent. She venture into a medical frontier that is still very much taboo. Gur has presented a legal insanity defense from more than one perspective. Killing JH is incapable of bring joy oir peace to the victims or anyone. Why? its a barbaric action in a supposed civil society during the 21st century to kill a delusional person.
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Judge Samour: "Mr. King, one of the jurors needs a break"
Everyone else in the courtroom: "YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!" -
I'm not surprised she is getting a migraine after all this!!!
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Why does the Judge always have to interrupt testimony with King?? That never happens with Brauchler, Brauchler always asks if now is a good time to break. Just saying..
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I wonder if Mr. King had to discuss things with her in her eeeeeeeevvviiiillll llaaaaiiiirrr
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@Tara, yes they are on afternoon break because a juror has a migraine. -
How many more questions can he ask Dr.Gur that have been asked and answered
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I don't agree that he would have gone on with his plan if an armed gunman was at the theater. He stopped in back and didn't go through with his plan with the escape. He gave up when the police were there.
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I wonder if the juror with a migraine listed that as a medical issue on the juror questionnaire that might prevent him/her from serving. -
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She seemed to get a lot of information out of JH than other psychiatrists were....I think Dr. Gur, for as much as she loves to talk, that she's filling in the blanks on what she believes JH was trying to tell her.
