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Theater shooting trial: Non-capital sentencing hearing
James Holmes will learn his punishment for 141 other crimes tied to this case in a hearing that begins Monday; these crimes include the charges for explosives planted in his apartment.Victims, families and the gunman will have another chance to address the court, similar to the other sentencing phase. The key difference is that there will be no jury in this hearing and the sentencing decisions will all be made by the judge.
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Many of us do not agree with the verdict, but it is what it is and we can't go back and change it. Today is the day for the victims, and everyone involved, to speak about their feelings, about what they're going through. We can discuss what one juror did, or did not do, until the cows come home but it's not going to change a thing. That juror has to live with their decision, as all jurors have to do.
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I think that the DT is finding it hard to look at the victims because they know what their client did and they are human too and would also cry along with the victims. That wouldn't be so professional so they largely look away. Yet we do need defense attorney's to complete the judicial portrait. The judge, the jury, the prosecution, and the defense are all needed.
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I hope he is not put into the system at Pueblo--that, to me, would be a slap in the face of those who truly need the facilities. sorry, but I still think he pulled one masterful scam on the system with ANY of his claims of mental illness. It has seemed, from the beginning of the trial, to be WAY too convenient and too easy to control his actions. I hope he is put into general pop and left to fend for himself. -
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Victims cannot forgive someone who does not ask for it. Jesus does not forgive without first the sinner asking for it. So Holmes will have to ask every victim and he'll have to ask the Savior of many who are affected by his many sins that fateful night of July 20, 2012 for forgiveness.
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