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

@NT8... you have the right to do the same thing you just ask Clancy about.... wow watch those stones you and Mark are throwing in your glass houses!! I'm done with your comments both of you!! Move on please!!

by LG 6/25/2015 9:00:50 PM
IMO This Dr is paid for and brought to you by the DT... and he is giving them their monies worth!

by Sally Mander 6/25/2015 9:00:55 PM
Lori, I felt Dr. Reid was more concise, more to the point. Not so much rambling. Here we go with the hypotheticals again

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:01:17 PM
- Objection
Brauchler objects to form of the question, because it relates to past testimony. Judge sustains

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:01:51 PM
experts are paid for and brought by the PT as well

by CPK 6/25/2015 9:01:53 PM
Dr. has a soothing voice. He is philosophical, too. Almost felt like being in a lecture room.

by NeuroNonsense 6/25/2015 9:01:59 PM
@Lynn--How do you know when someone writing short notes in this blog is going through life angry and ignorant? I also think that the victims deserve all of our sympathy and that JH deserves none. I don't see a useful place for him anywhere in human society, whether it's in prison, a mental hospital, or whatever....the death penalty can legally provide for permanently removing the worst-of-the-worst from existence.

by flip 6/25/2015 9:02:14 PM
@oxk, I get what you're saying, I have killed bugs, cockroaches especially, I have never kicked or hit a dog, cat or any other living being. It still doesn't make me want to kill people.
I think that thru JH's education, he learned one lesson, to manipulate. I've been watching this trial from the beginning and at first I had great sympathy for all affected. My heart is heavy for the victims, their friends and family and for killers family.

by Resa 6/25/2015 9:02:20 PM
@oxk - JH even by his own words admitted what he did was wrong

by mandi 6/25/2015 9:02:21 PM
Woodcock says he believes in looking at the facts through the lens of the patient's diagnosis

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:03:23 PM
- Quote
"So, is it important to understand the psychotic thinking process in order to understand?" "I think it is"

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:03:56 PM
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"What we have to understand is the degree to which it is there and the way it drives behavior"

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:04:13 PM
Are we having a philisophical discussion or trying a case?

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:04:15 PM
Is JH on medication now? If so, when did he start them? Does anyone know?

by Annie 6/25/2015 9:04:15 PM
Yes, he is currently medicated. I believe after the November incident.

by CPK 6/25/2015 9:05:03 PM
Good think I have my zipfizz drink to keep me awake....hehe

by LG 6/25/2015 9:05:04 PM
this guy wants us to believe that JH was so psychotic on 7/19 that he did not have the capability of knowing killing people and rigging his apartment was wrong. I don't buy it IMO

by mandi 6/25/2015 9:05:51 PM
Taking a break in a moment

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:07:12 PM
key word for defense witnesses = "hired"

by Marti 6/25/2015 9:12:49 PM
@tammy neither

by oxk 6/25/2015 9:12:50 PM
what evidence does he have leading up to july 20th supports all this talk of magical thinking, irrational and illogical behavior??

by debitwo 6/25/2015 9:12:58 PM
Me too. I gotta go in 20 minutes and will have to follow up later.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:13:01 PM
See this is the difference between a clinician and a forensic psychiatrist.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:13:03 PM
I think he has been a pretty convincing witness - so far.

by NeuroNonsense 6/25/2015 9:13:05 PM
@LG what's zip fizz ?

by Tjq 6/25/2015 9:13:06 PM
@Mandi I agree

by Joey 6/25/2015 9:13:07 PM
I have paint drying that is more interesting than this.

by litprof 6/25/2015 9:13:08 PM
@flip I think someone else said this, but you might be scapegoating, since you don't really know. Now, do you know all these things you say?

by oxk 6/25/2015 9:13:09 PM
Phil, can you repeat that in writing as to the differing approaches between the state's psychiatrists and this psychiatrist?

by Chipper 6/25/2015 9:13:11 PM
@flip What I said to Mark was the same exact thing he did to me. He doesn't know me anymore than I know him.

For him to tell me I have no compassion for the victims simply because I am asking questions is pretty ignorant and quite frankly, makes me angry.

by Lynn 6/25/2015 9:13:14 PM
@Chipper: This doctor is expressing that he believes the clinical diagnosis has a relationship to the legal assessment. Other doctors said that legal assessment was based on law, diagnosis was based on the disease and they were separate

Does that make sense or am I rambling?

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:14:08 PM
makes sense to me, Phil

by debitwo 6/25/2015 9:15:05 PM
Can we get over the whole "compassion" conversation and move on with our lives now?

by FMM 6/25/2015 9:15:21 PM
A lot of people are complaining that this is "boring". Would you rather we skip the entire defense and get straight to sentencing?

by Lynn 6/25/2015 9:16:11 PM
Way above my little head

by Chipper 6/25/2015 9:16:12 PM
LOL FMM..i agree

by debitwo 6/25/2015 9:16:15 PM
Great summation, Phil. But I'm wondering if the jury wouldn't be instructed that they really have to look at it from the first perspective.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:16:16 PM
@Phil: ramble ramble ramble.....lol. Can you use smaller words please. lol ;)

by FMM 6/25/2015 9:16:49 PM
@Chipper Glad you asked that question!

@Phil Great summary! What that makes me think, though, is that the DT's dr is making his diagnosis fit the legal definition for NGRI. I would be more likely to trust the dx that is independent of the legal definition.

by Lori Butterfield 6/25/2015 9:18:16 PM
@Lynn honestly yes I do!!

by Joey 6/25/2015 9:18:24 PM
Sorry, I really meant from the second perspective - the legal one versus the disease first one.

by Tammy Garrison 6/25/2015 9:18:25 PM
@TjQ its a Healthy Energy mix you put in your water!! :)

by LG 6/25/2015 9:18:26 PM
Make sense to me Phil

by Goliath_Fish 6/25/2015 9:18:28 PM
Hey Phil, on my lunch break I heard "Never gonna give you up", I will forever think of you and your esteem boost you get from watching this video!!! :-) Sorry I thought it might lighten the mood around here.

by Stephany 6/25/2015 9:18:28 PM
@Stephany: I have no idea what you mean about that song, but thanks for the kind thoughts and trying to brighten the room!

by Phil Tenser 6/25/2015 9:18:38 PM