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"I heard in some of the comments, people imply that we would've been better off just with a plea bargain and that the trial was a waste of time and money. I have to tell you that the court was not involved in any way in the decisions that led to the trial"
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"people have a choice, and that includes all the victims, do you second guess those decisions and focus on regretting those decisions or do you look and focus on what came out of the trial?"
judge will ask some rhetorical questions
"Was all of that a waste of time?"
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"Cierra Cowden, Gordon Cowden's daughter, still a teenager, had the courage to do something that many adults would not have been able to do -- she took the witness stand."
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"I think we all remember about Ashley Moser's testimony and the fact that she told a jury that being a mother defined her"
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Tom Sullivan, "a man with a larger than life personality got choked up more than once on the stand"
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"there were other things that came out as a result of the trial. The trial allowed all the victims to find out all of the facts"
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"We may not have all the answers to all the questions, we never have all the answers to all the questions -- that isn't how life works"… "was that important to the victims? Was that important to the community? Was that important to the state of Colorado?"
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"By having the case completed with no appeals, it means the victims don't have to be continuously hearing about the case or proceedings for the next decade or decades to come."
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"the truth is that either way you look at it the defendant is going to die in the custody of a department of corrections"
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"the defendant will never be a free man again, ever"
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"with respect to what the victims have gone through: we don't have words in our vocabulary to adequately describe what they've gone through. There are no words to adequately describe the pain, suffering, loss…"
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"I have been doing criminal law cases for the better part of 2 decades and before this trial I had never seen a police officer or a first responder break down on the witness stand."
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"I cannot imagine having to experience what the victims have experienced and continue to experience and they did not deserve any of it."
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"the anguish experienced by the victims was caused by some of the most horrific, unthinkable, unspeakable, heinous, cowardly acts."
"There was evidence that the defendant suffered from a severe mental illness, but the jury rejected the defense of insanity and not only did they reject the defense of insanity but they did so 164 times."
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"I agree with what Mr. Brauchler said yesterday, that, 'mental illness and evil are not mutually exclusive'"
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"Contrary to what the defendant claimed during the trial, this was not all about mental illness."
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"life knocked him down, as it does to all of us. Life knocked him down for the first time and the defendant quit."
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"He decided that since he was quitting, he was going to take other people with him"
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"In the end, what the defendant did is unacceptable. And the community, through the jury, said he must be fully accountable to the law."
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"it is almost impossible to comprehend how a human being is capable of such acts"
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"Your healing is not tied to the defendant's fate, and you've shown that."
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"at least one juror showed the defendant the mercy that he didn't show the victims"
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"the victims who have come in here and address the court have shown all that is good in humanity"
Judge taking a break, will return soon to read the sentence
We don't know how long this recess will be
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"if you weren't willing to do what you did in this case, we wouldn't have the system that we have"
all the counts have to be run consecutive, but not incendiary devices.
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Judge in #TheaterShooting calls defendant's crime "cowardly acts" in hourlong statement about case, victim concerns, fairness.by Marshall Zelinger via twitter 8/26/2015 4:29:09 PM
