Theater shooting trial day 58: Arlene Holmes expected to testify

After the father of the convicted Aurora movie theater shooter concludes the testimony he began Tuesday, the gunman's mother is expected to be the next witness to take the stand.

3rd & 7 37yd

I was thinking about jward too.

by happy 7/29/2015 2:51:08 PM
@JoyeWillett: Simply because she asks to do it that way

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:51:17 PM
@me. I agree at not understanding the hostility. I don't understand anyone having hostility toward anyone but JH, for that matter. He did it. Everyone else is just forced to deal with the fallout and pain it caused.

by Krista 7/29/2015 2:54:52 PM
feel bad for him... who remembers every email they receive and when it came? poor guy.

by maggie 7/29/2015 2:54:54 PM
@joye Willett. I think it's because she can't make speaking objections. When she wants to say something the jury shouldn't hear, she has to ask to go to the bench to discuss it.

by ms 7/29/2015 2:54:56 PM
This lawyer is being a jerk. James committed the crime, not his dad.

by Kate 7/29/2015 2:54:59 PM
I would not put to much thought into Robert saying Arlene's name in a conversation of leaving a voicemail. I know families that when they get older call their parents by their first name. It is kind of weird..but a lot of "normal" families do it all the times these days. I do not think we should put these parents in a category of having "dysfunctional" family. Once again JH made is own pathways in life as an adult.

by TMT 7/29/2015 2:55:02 PM
Brauchler now asking about the voicemail messages we heard yesterday

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:55:11 PM
Brauchler is focusing on the dates of the voicemails, specifically April 29 and the email 2 days later where the gunman apparently said he tried to return the call but nobody had answered

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:55:45 PM
Good morning everyone!

by Kristle 7/29/2015 2:55:51 PM
Brauchler pauses, asks for a moment to ask a question of Brady

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:56:00 PM
Brachler is so arrogant, he's going to make the jury feel sorry for Robert Holmes. =D

by Me 7/29/2015 2:56:03 PM
AC is doing a great job. He knows his stuff. I can't remember what I did yesterday with such detail.

by Suzanne 7/29/2015 2:56:14 PM
Brauchler says he's missing the date of the 3rd call. Robert Holmes jumps in, reminds him it was Memorial day

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:56:34 PM
Is closed-captioned available so I don't have to hear Brady's voice?

by Sandy 7/29/2015 2:56:39 PM
May 1 email apparently indicates the gunman found school to be "boring" and a "degree factory"

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:57:23 PM
Gunman called his mom on Mother's day. Robert Holmes remembers nothing abnormal

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:57:58 PM
I think some are confusing arrogance with confidence....who wants a DA that doesn't know what he is doing????

by mld 7/29/2015 2:58:01 PM
Yea as I said, to each their own, Definitely didn't say anything about a dysfunctional family..

by Della (Me) 7/29/2015 2:58:04 PM
I guess I don't see GB being "jerky". I think he's simply straight shooting.

by SNS 7/29/2015 2:58:05 PM
Brauchler needs to back down just a bit. show a bit of class Mr. PT. Robert Holmes did not commit this crime. He lived more than a thousand miles away.

by TMT 7/29/2015 2:58:06 PM
Not to start the GB bashing, but I thought at first that Brauchler was one of the best attorneys I'd ever seen, poised, smart and skilled. As the trial went on I've begun to feel that his heartfelt reactions are artifice; that I'm seeing a man who is ruthless and heartless.

by Clancy 7/29/2015 2:58:10 PM
Next email was May 22

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:58:49 PM
Then on June 9, right after the prelim exams

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:58:56 PM
Can we please stop calling attorneys names in this case! It has no bearing on the trial whether you like or dislike an attorney and creates a bad environment to people who want to speak about whats happening in the trial.

by Mrs. Arnaz 7/29/2015 2:59:09 PM
I don't think Brauchler is being mean, I look at it as "business-like". No sympathy, but no antagonism either. I think he is trying to show that JH was acting 'normal' and not crazy during this time.

by DocJ 7/29/2015 2:59:11 PM
Everyone is allowed to have opinions on the DA's performance, and his strategy. This is a safe place to share those thoughts, just be respectful of each other please

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 2:59:44 PM
As much as I don't want to see Brauchler grill the dad....he's doing his job. And doing it well.

by Kristle 7/29/2015 2:59:45 PM
Mr Brauchler is trying to attenuate as much as possible the mitigating value of the testimony being offered, I do not think he is to rough.

by Humble Pride 7/29/2015 2:59:46 PM
Email contained a reference to Fosters beer because gunman knew his dad had been on a buisiness trip to Australia.

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:00:08 PM
@Suzanne I agree GB is doing a great job. He really did his homework.

by Steve 7/29/2015 3:00:18 PM
I think Brauchler is doing a great job. Its hard to cross someone who has lost something. (Parents & victims)

by happy 7/29/2015 3:00:19 PM
Robert Holmes did not commit the crime. But most mitigating witnesses are there for the parents...not so much JH

by Sandy 7/29/2015 3:00:20 PM
Emails were "getting briefer" Robert Holmes says

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:00:21 PM
Brauchler says that on June 11, gunman emailed his dad to say he didn't pass

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:00:36 PM
Gunman said he wanted to avoid moving back home "except as a last resort to homelessness" Brauchler says and Robert Holmes confirms

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:01:26 PM
yuck, Fosters is as gross as Coors&Bud

by JG 7/29/2015 3:01:28 PM
On June 12, shooter sent his dad alternate emails to use because he knew school address would be shut down

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:02:04 PM
GB easy to see through his role as an attorney into his person, cruel, mean, nasty setting CO back a hundred years

by okx 7/29/2015 3:02:07 PM
@clancy sometimes I have wondered if much of this is self serving for GB, although he is a really good lawyer

by emma 7/29/2015 3:02:07 PM
Brauchler is awesome!!!

by ERICA 7/29/2015 3:02:43 PM
Mr Brauchler has to do his job....it's not a popularity contest and I believe the jury understands this

by Jewel 7/29/2015 3:04:28 PM
If the parents called dr. Fenton to suggest that JH might have Asperger's syndrome, that is a huge sign that they had suspected a problem with him all his life. You don't get Asperger's in your 20s.

by Sophiamtn@gmail.com 7/29/2015 3:04:31 PM
Brauchler hands Robert 3 emails from after the gunman quit school

by Phil Tenser 7/29/2015 3:04:42 PM
Really? They're cross-examining his father? Really?

by amjinoh 7/29/2015 3:04:43 PM