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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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I'm not sure listening to the police response to the carnage is going to help the defense.
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He's definitely into rythmic drumming but he is no Ginger Baker.
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Defense is hanging out to dry no matter how many videos they show
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There's a police officer sitting in the room with him but just off camera and there's a radio on the police officer and we are picking up the activity going on like the rescue mission to help the survivors. Remember they had to use police cars, the ambulances were full.
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I am glad he is hearing the radio... hope it is causing a panic attack he didn't plan on!
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Guys great observations about the scanner radio. This has to be hurting the DT.
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1. The person must be "diseased or defective in mind." This is typically translated as having a mental illness (almost always a psychotic thought disorder like Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder). To be considered mentally diseased or defective, a condition must "grossly and demonstrably impair a person's perception or understanding of reality." Drugs and alcohol don't count, and neither does a diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder. You can't be hammered and claim you were insane. Same goes with being a psychopath.
2. The person must have the "diseased or defective" mind at the time of the crime. It doesn't matter how psychotic he is right now. What matters is how psychotic he was at the time of the offense.
3. The person's significant mental illness (the diseased or defective mind) must cause the person to either be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, or from being able to form "the culpable mental state of the crime charged." For the theater shooting, the culpable mental state is "knowingly," meaning he would need to be certain in his understanding that his actions were going to cause people to be murdered.
Insanity is a mental disease or defect that causes a person to not know right from wrong or not know that what he is doing will lead to an intended outcome. Drugs and alcohol don't count. Psychopathic tendencies don't count. Anger and revenge don't count.
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Thank goodness the jury is not allowed to see the comments posted in this blog....lol
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I don't think JH went into this planning an insanity plea, didn't that only come to fruition recently?
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remember the poor juror who was called before the judge for falling asleep- she has met her challenge if she is still awake
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This is how the defense will be going out before a 3 day weekend? Yawn...
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They're going to 5:30 tonight so will they be taking a break or going straight thru?
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I think most of us would be this tired after such a big night at the movies
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Even with the police officer watching him he knew enough not to talk and then request for a public defender later on..
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Holmes to self: "Take a deep breath, now repeat after me: I'm okay, you're okay. I'm okay, you're okay, I'm okay...."
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I cant believe the Judge let this whole thing in and didnt have the defense edit it..to just show the relevant parts to their case.
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The gunman speaks slowly but gives the investigators his address, phone number and other personal information. -
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If I were a juror, I think I'd regret volunteering to give the court an extra half hour of my time to sit through this.
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The gunman asks to have his 2 psychiatrists listed as his emergency contacts.
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This questioning is, IMHO, sinking the defense completely...clear memory, responsive to questions, what on Earth is the DT thinking?
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wow -- he's floridly psychotic. That should take out any doubts the jurors have
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Seems strange to me that they would drone this on and on when the jury has no frame of reference as to what a holding tank looks like or how other people behave.
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The jury is thinking the judge must have asked them to stay until 5:30 am tomorrow morning.
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Had to laugh: Officer: "Who is your emergency contact?" Holmes: "My two psychiatrists" ,,,,Nawww, he wasn't planning out his insanity defense, not at all.
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The longer the DT drags out this case, the more money they make.
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Is the DT not allowed to present a condensed version of this footage? I'm guessing it's all or nothing when it comes to video evidence, but wasn't sure.
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Someone needs to get the officer sitting under the monitor some coffee, stat.
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I think the jury, as well as I, are suffering from massive internal bleeding.
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If only all of the people who had gone to the movie could just sleep it off and wake up to be protected and paid for by the state
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cant wait for the 4 hour video! think i'll work OT that day,..