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Theater shooting trial day 55: Phase 2 continues with defense witnesses
Defense attorneys will continue to call witnesses in the first full day of phase 2, where they are trying to show mitigating circumstances sufficient to convince the jury to spare their client's life. James Holmes was convicted last week of the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting in which 12 people were killed and 70 were injured. Jurors also agreed with the prosecutors that sufficient aggravating circumstances were present to move forward to this stage.
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You must keep asking yourself why this keeps happening. There are no words. This trial was what I immediately thought of last night and what the jurors are going to think. Please, think of the families in Aurora and those families in Lafayette this morning. No punishment will ever be enough.
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One of the victim's mother tweeted about it last night...I pray none of us here have to experience this. @fascinated, I'm anticipating a late start, due to last night and ways to instruct the jurors. I wonder how they will proceed...plus, even if you didn't hear anything about Aurora, it's the idea that someone claiming insanity came covered in body armor and here's this older man, dressed normally, and shot up a theater. Which seems more "insane"?
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I agree, Kels...totally. This is probably unchartered territory in terms of a shooting happening during penalty phase of the "original" shooting mass murder/crime. It did make me reflect on how many MORE Aurora shooter killed and injured...12/70....makes it hit home even harder.
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