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Theater shooting trial day 53: Start of the penalty process
Day 53 in the Aurora movie theater shooting trial – People vs. James Eagan Holmes. Today, the penalty phase of the case begins. The jury found Holmes to be legally sane and therefore guilty 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.
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Whether this jury gives him death or not Holmes will be eventually going to the same place, which will be an administrative segregation unit (solitary confinement) at the Sterling Correctional Center in the remote plains of northeast Colorado. He will be placed in ad-seg rather than general population not because of the heinousness of his crimes but because of his status as a high profile inmate who is mentally ill and therefore a likely target of violent predators among other inmates. All 3 of CO inmates under the death penalty are in ad-seg at the Sterling facility.
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Good Lord, his defense team is doing their job. They are bound by the oath they gave when they were sworn in to do a job and they are doing it. Stop admonishing them for doing it. They are doing the state a favor by actually doing their jobs, they are taking away alot of chances for appeal.
