What's gotten out of hand? I just see people talking. People have different opinions, it happens.

in other words -- the other experts had a more complete picture of JH: planning and committing the crime, which he didn't

ah...Dr. Gerr. Hope I'm spelling it right.

@mandi yes very true which in my opinion makes him less biased.

I don't get this line of questioning. King's admitting that his expert wasn't as thorough as the other experts as if its ok and makes his opinion more accurate?

@SMH I'm going to out on a limb and say that someone that walked into a movie theater and opened fire shooting 70 people while rigging their apartment with bombs hoping to kill more people is not walking around the yard in general population in ANY prison.

I have an issue here with JH. What he did was horrific and unimaginable. So much that you have to almost say only a complete nutcase would do something so terrible.

He reached out to 3 different psychiatrists, school counselors etc. BEFORE he even started planning this horrific crime and it seems as if he was blown off and dismissed. Everyone he knows has said there was something not right about JH. His own parents say yes, he is a very disturbed person. Mental illness runs in his family. H'es been reaching out for help from a young age.

I would have a really, really hard time putting this person to death. I would have a hard time throwing him in a cell with no other human interaction for the rest of his life as well. I really don't know what to think.

So in November he was worse, how could he be worse than on the night of July 19th? Didn't the DT want to prove that he was insane at the time of the act, not 4 months later?

Lynn, I believe your last point - to be put in a cell with no human interaction - is what he has expressed he wants. Because of the social anxiety disorder.

@Tammy and you think that is normal and ok for him to actually want that?

I am imagining closing arguments.

@nts My apologies, I understand we all form opinions, but it does seem for the most part that has been lost on some bloggers. I am only your equal, but I was the victim of attempted murder which has taken 45 years to recove. I was also a professional researcher for almost 50 years of world culture practices and even murder, can have different contexts, implications, and/or penalties. I think the emotional movement is stuck, not allowing the intellect to rise, in many of the blogs. I am sure others out there might have a similar personal history, but JH pain is there, too Perhaps, more than you, but we will not be able to measure that. Reckless judgments of what went on with him is disturbing, esp. from commentators, who know no more than myself or you. It's a trial, blog not a let's bash "JH" party.

@ Lynn. thank you for the reminder

PT should object--King is actually testifying with some of his "questions"

Direct examination and cross examination have different purposes and different rules associated with them.