Theater shooting day 57: Phase 2 continues with defense witnesses

Defense attorneys for James Holmes will continue to call mitigating witnesses in an attempt to convince the jury to spare the convicted mass shooter from the death penalty.

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@David, yes, yes he is.

by caz 7/28/2015 5:34:35 PM
Here it is, the NetZero!!!

by Kristle 7/28/2015 5:35:52 PM
I don't think he's creepy....lol. Why say that about him?

by Kristle 7/28/2015 5:35:54 PM
Karrer confirms the grade report he wrote for the defendant

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:36:17 PM
Karrer says defendant had eight A's and 2 B's

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:37:07 PM
I know the PT has switched to calling JH "him" instead of "that guy."

by Tammy Garrison 7/28/2015 5:37:34 PM
Who care about his 5th grade reports?

by Danielle 7/28/2015 5:37:43 PM
He has kind of a "radio voice".

by Kristle 7/28/2015 5:37:43 PM
IMO Brauchler will get fired up and say "this guy" still.

by Kristle 7/28/2015 5:39:05 PM
Karrer read notes to the Holmes family. One says the defendant set up Net Zero on his computer

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:39:45 PM
Did they grade on a curve?

by ICE 7/28/2015 5:39:52 PM
@Phil, do you know what time the lunch break will be? How many witnesses till then?

by caz 7/28/2015 5:40:57 PM
@caz: They never give us a schedule like that, but usually lunch starts between noon and 1230

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:41:13 PM
@Kat Both excellent and terrible students leave lasting impressions for most teachers. Great teachers usually become friends with the excellent ones and bad teachers cover the terrible (mean) students.

by okx 7/28/2015 5:41:28 PM
If I were a juror I'd not consider much about his childhood except He had a nice well educated one.

by Abrandt 7/28/2015 5:42:25 PM
Thanks Phil -- need to go out and don't want to miss anything.

by caz 7/28/2015 5:42:28 PM
I don't know because I don't live in Colorado but I've been curious about something. Please tell me they tore down that theater and rebuilt a new one? I'm really hoping people aren't actually sitting in a giant tomb watching movies.

by Me 7/28/2015 5:42:52 PM
I find Higgs' inappropriate giggling much creepier than this witness.

by Lori Butterfield 7/28/2015 5:43:25 PM
@Me: The interior of the theater was entirely redone. Rooms no longer exist where they used to. More information here:
7NEWS Denver | Stories and diagrams from inside Theater 9, where the shooting occurred | The Denver Channel | KMGH-TV
Stories and diagrams from inside Theater 9 of the Aurora Century 16, where the July 20, 2012 shooting occurred

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:43:26 PM
Severe mental illness is not a questioning of the ill person's ethics; it is questioning of the healthy person's ethics.

by okx 7/28/2015 5:43:29 PM
Karrer said the defendant was the first child to beat him in a foot race. "I am sure he was pleased with himself"

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:43:43 PM
What are the statistics on kids that misbehave in elementary school and murdering people?

by Kristle 7/28/2015 5:44:38 PM
@Jennifer. His professors at CU spoke of him in their highest regard as a student. they did testify---

by okx 7/28/2015 5:47:30 PM
@me, no they just remodeled it

by emma 7/28/2015 5:47:31 PM
The theater was REDONE?? That means they moved a few walls and painted over blood stains. They should have completely gotten rid of the building a built a new one in another location. That's terrible.

That ground where those poor people died shouldn't have anything on it other than maybe a flower garden or something like that to remember them.

by Me 7/28/2015 5:48:45 PM
@Me: It was a lot more extensive than that. The building was gutted

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:48:56 PM
For those of you that do not like the DP in our great state. You can always move to another state. Bye

by happy 7/28/2015 5:49:03 PM
end of video

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:52:22 PM
@okx- I am not quite sure why you made that statement. I know they did as I have watched this trial from the start, missing some days here and there. I am stating, as a professor, that it is difficult to remember all of your students over the years. I remember some, but not all by a longshot.

by Jennifer 7/28/2015 5:52:44 PM
@me that explains a lot... ahhhhh

by LG 7/28/2015 5:52:48 PM
They're going to take a lunch break now

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:53:06 PM
90 minute lunch

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:53:12 PM
Misbehaving is not necessarily about a genetic or even socially contagious mental illness. Murder might happen more frequently when they are conjoined causing a depth of confusion.

by okx 7/28/2015 5:53:16 PM
@happy- Or another option is that a person can work to change the DP. Just so you know...

by CSP 7/28/2015 5:53:28 PM
Prosecution now making their objection about the parent's letters

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:55:57 PM
and their contents

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:56:00 PM
Prosecution says Arlene Holmes wrote about trying to understand mental illness

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:56:26 PM
Prosecution says Arlene's letters include that she prays for the victims, and says she knows defendant didn't "choose this"

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:57:00 PM
Prosecution argues that it is not appropriate to discuss mental health and also that most of the letters (44 from Arlene and 4 from Bob) are all objectionable. Judge Samour asks for a chance to read them over the lunch break

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:57:45 PM
Brauchler says he also has other objections to lodge

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:57:55 PM
Judge will read the letters over lunch

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:58:11 PM
Higgs says she anticipates Bob Holmes testifying first, so she'll have time to get the court a copy of the letters from the mother

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:58:47 PM
Judge is handed copy of the letters from the father

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:59:00 PM
Brauchler says the defense appears to plan to introduce 100+ documents including photos and he argues they are cumulative in nature... like photos of every basketball team the defendant played on

by Phil Tenser 7/28/2015 5:59:30 PM
@me Completely agree, I lived maybe ten blocks from this theater before and after the shooting. I avoid Sable Blvd to this day, I will never go in that theater EVER again. It should have been used fro the memorial. Such a sad reminder.

by ERICA 7/28/2015 5:59:33 PM

Theater shooting day 57: Phase 2 continues with defense witnesses

Defense attorneys for James Holmes will continue to call mitigating witnesses in an attempt to convince the jury to spare the convicted mass shooter from the death penalty.

7NEWS Denver | Stories and diagrams from inside Theater 9, where the shooting occurred | The Denver Channel | KMGH-TV