Theater shooting trial day 37: Defense to call first witnesses

Defense attorneys will call their first witnesses Thursday in the trial of James Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing 12 and injuring 70 others on July 20, 2012.

3rd & 7 37yd

"as related to the conduct charged as a crime the phrase incapable of distinguish right from wrong refers to a persons cognitive inability due to a mental disease or defect to distinguish right from wrong as measured by a societal standard of morality... even though the person may be aware that the conduct in question is criminal. " ---according to this definition, I actually think he could be found Not Guilty

by laurie 6/25/2015 2:57:57 PM
I didn't know that the feed on the Channel 7 page was from youtube... ahhh i learned something new today :) ty

by LG 6/25/2015 2:57:58 PM
Does anyone think it is weird or on purpose that JH has changed his look just in time for the defense to start?

by Suzanne 6/25/2015 2:57:59 PM
As he told me yesterday, LG, spoiler alert. Although that's not what I meant yesterday. I was having trouble keeping up because I was watching discussion about one instruction while also trying to follow Phil's posts at the same time.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 2:58:01 PM
Stand by the Zoom trigger Phil!!

by NT8 6/25/2015 2:58:03 PM
Ok, judge will admit the video for purposes related to the defendant's sanity only

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 2:58:22 PM
Prosecution asking to view it before showing the jury

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 2:58:32 PM
Video is 6 minutes long

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 2:58:35 PM
I don't see how jail videos matter. All this stuff happened after the shooting. so we are watching JH after he committed the terrible act, after he has been in padded rooms and chains. on meds, off meds, kept alone. It's all just too much added on that doesn't make it relevant in my opinion to his mental state at the time of the crimes. You put anyone in that situation where you are kept alone, chained, drugged, etc and see how sane or insane they look

by bob 6/25/2015 2:58:36 PM
Good Morning everyone.

by Tired 6/25/2015 2:58:42 PM
Good morning everyone! Let's Go DT!

by Kristle 6/25/2015 2:59:51 PM
People don't object. They'll show it to jury

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 2:59:59 PM
Alot of criminals go bonkers in jail, esp solitary. It doesn't mean He was insane at the time of the shooting.

by Abrandt 6/25/2015 3:00:39 PM
Goodmorning!

by T 6/25/2015 3:00:39 PM
They will show all the evidence they can. Just how it goes.

by Angela Freeman 6/25/2015 3:00:40 PM
Bob, the use of the videos are being used to show he is sane or insane, aren't they?

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 3:00:41 PM
@Suzanne...yes I do! Trying to look more youthful and innocent...really??

by Tammy 6/25/2015 3:00:41 PM
Zooming in

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 3:00:44 PM
Agreed Bob- I hope this is brought up in summations that these videos are 4 months after the shootings.

by TLR 6/25/2015 3:01:18 PM
thanks Phil!

by NT8 6/25/2015 3:01:19 PM
Good morning, Phil and all fellow trial watchers. :-)

by Lori Butterfield 6/25/2015 3:01:20 PM
In video, gunman wavers on top of bed, falls backward

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 3:03:10 PM
What does a jailhouse video 4 months after the shooting have to do with this case???

by Victoria 6/25/2015 3:03:11 PM
I completely agree with you Bob....in order for us and the jury to determine that he was insane at the time of the act we need to know about what he was doing then, during the act and the time leading up to it. Not how he feels like a rat in a cage now.

by Stephany 6/25/2015 3:03:12 PM
Is this 6 minutes of him standing there facing the wall?

by Angela Freeman 6/25/2015 3:03:13 PM
Please don't forget the log the witness name in the chat (with a new witness tag) Thank you!

by imnotreallyhere 6/25/2015 3:03:13 PM
Oh. Lol. Nevermind. That was awkward.

by Angela Freeman 6/25/2015 3:03:14 PM
That will leave a mark.

by Tired 6/25/2015 3:03:15 PM
he looks bored

by T 6/25/2015 3:03:16 PM
wait I didn't see what happened I need to rewind

by T 6/25/2015 3:05:56 PM
I think this was staged by JH.

by Suzanne 6/25/2015 3:05:57 PM
SANE!

by mama d 6/25/2015 3:05:58 PM
When you do a trust fall, there's supposed to be someone there to test the trust of. o.o

by Angela Freeman 6/25/2015 3:05:59 PM
also who says a suicidal act (if that is what they are implying this was) makes you sane or insane

by bob 6/25/2015 3:06:00 PM
He's not the first arrested person to roll around on the floor.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 3:06:01 PM
uhhh, trust falls usually require more than one person... ha ha

by MJ 6/25/2015 3:06:02 PM
Jail guards see this all the time.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 3:06:02 PM
What is he doing in the video?

by Tjq 6/25/2015 3:06:03 PM
Looks like the guards have seen this kind of behaviour before....

by Tired 6/25/2015 3:06:04 PM
I bet those he killed would have preferred a fall on the butt to what he did to them.

by Abrandt 6/25/2015 3:06:04 PM
6 minutes - 3 standing on the bed - 3 laying on the floor.

by Suzanne 6/25/2015 3:06:05 PM
Gunman falls from bed

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 3:06:21 PM
Was the floor padded

by Jewel 6/25/2015 3:06:47 PM
The guards don't seem too impressed lol.

by Angela Freeman 6/25/2015 3:06:49 PM
- Cross-examination starts
Prosecution cross examining Frank. He says he first met the defendant on July 23, 2012

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 3:07:18 PM