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Aurora movie theater shooting trial day 41: Defense expected to call more doctors who treated James Holmes
Day 41 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. 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
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Good morning. This is day 41 of the trial. We expect to hear from more doctors who treated the gunman.
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Dr. Robert Hanlon is expected to testify about Dr. Jeffrey Metzner's sanity evaluation of the gunman.
He may also answer questions about the contents of a notebook that the gunman mailed to CU psychiatrist Lynne Fenton. -
Good morning, everybody! Got the 3 amigos up front for the PT, I see. Should be an interesting day. -
morning all :)
Let's see how many battle ships we can sink today.... -
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Looks like Brauchler is in lead chair this morning.... maybe we'll get to see something interesting today.
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Judge Samour says some of the slides would be more appropriate for the closing arguments. He doesn't feel they qualify as appropriate demonstrative evidence.
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But correlation is not causation, Mr. King! Didn't you learn that in school?
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I finally made it. I had to refresh 4 times to get the scribble to update.
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Sounds like we will also hear from a Dr. Gray, who evaluated the gunman in 2012.
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Good morning. King's already stuttering. We're in trouble. -
Dr. B. Thomas Gray approaches Judge Samour to answer questions about the test he performed.
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Next witness for DT will describe how his/her mood ring turned colors when JH put it on. "BUT IT WAS DARK BLUE!"
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He knows to give his card to the court reporter -- I'm guessing he's testified before quite a few times.
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Dr. Gray: "The MMPI consists of 567 true/false questions... I then take that answer sheet and input the responses into a scoring program." - Quote
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Why did they have JH take this test if they won't allow the jury to hear about it?
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poor jury members. had to get up early and be at the courthouse only to sit and wait through all of this and not know what's going on....
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Dr. Gray: "I then get a printout that does include some interpretive statements." It also includes clinical and validity scores.
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Dr. Gray said the PAI is a similar test that consists of more than 300 questions with 4 possible responses
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If this Dr. was hired by the DT how do we know the answers were not manipulated by the doc going into the software? -
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Here's the link for the info on this test if you'd like to share it; it's interesting reading! interestihttp://psychcentral.com/lib/minnesota-multiphasic-personality-inventory-mmpi/
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So it sounds like the test factors in questions that are intended to be taken independently of the rest of the test. Interesting. Branchler may be able to use that...
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Well if HE looks at the individual questions, why can't Brauchler ask about those individual questions? -
So I want to know can the computer program can tell if someone is lying? or faking it? Throw the program out, let's have them be real doctors. Dr Reid didn't need a computer?
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The jury isn't in the courtroom yet till the Judge gets answers about the test JH was given.
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Brauchler's voice sounds deeper than normal. Maybe he's getting a cold or not enough sleep.
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It's early in the day for Brauchler to sound this irritated!
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the reason for indivual questions is so that one CANNOT fake the outcome and score. Also, they CANNOT answer these tests until the patient is stable. -
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But that is in a clinical setting, not in a legal setting.
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Sinking battleships is the mantra now, LOL ;) fair to say?
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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is considered a protected psychological instrument, meaning it can only be given and interpreted by a psychologist trained to do so (you cannot find the test online). While it’s commonly administered by computer nowadays (and requires no direct professional involvement during its administration), psychological testing is nearly always preceded by a clinical interview by the psychologist who is doing the testing. After the computer scores the test results, the psychologist writes up a report interpreting the test results in the context of the person’s history and current psychological concerns.
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Poor jury. Always there on time and then have to sit and wait.
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The conclusion of research is to find FACT. It HAS to be looked at in totality instead of question by question.
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Yes, they would agree by the conclusions from the text results. You can't cherry pick the questions. That would be very poor analysis be any doctor. PT should know more.
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