It's a big crime, after all: the feat of finding a jury for theater trial

June 18, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 Juror #901 was dismissed, but she鈥檚 not leaving. After the Aurora theater trial juror was abruptly dismissed earlier this week, she showed up unannounced Thursday and sat in the back row of the courtroom. The other jurors took notice, made glances back to the ex-juror and eventually...

A Peek Into Key Witness Testimony

June 18, 2015

CU News Corps CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 Tomorrow, one of the prosecution鈥檚 key witnesses will roll into the courtroom in her power wheelchair and testify. Ashley Moser arguably suffered the most of all of the theater survivors. She not only lost her 6 year old daughter, Veronica (the only child killed...

Victim's mother accuses defense of cherry picking jury

June 17, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 The jury of James Holmes' peers grew smaller again today. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. excused another juror from the original pool of 24 today. This juror's removal marks the second dismissal this week, the fifth since the trial began in April. Juror 276 works as a school...

Victim鈥檚 mother accuses defense of cherry picking jury

June 17, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 The jury of James Holmes鈥 peers grew smaller again today. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. excused another juror from the original pool of 24 today. This juror鈥檚 removal marks the second dismissal this week, the fifth since the trial began in April. Juror 276 works as a school...

Bonnie Kate Zoghbi brings color to the courtroom

June 17, 2015

Bonnie Kate Zogbhi (center) with her husband Max (right) and mother (left). Zogbhi was shot in the leg in the Aurora theater shooting. CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 The entire courtroom took notice of Bonnie Kate Zoghbi. Outfitted in a bright orange skirt, a yellow cardigan and a wreath of flowers on...

Holmes' psychiatrist worried he was shifting into a schizophrenic state

June 15, 2015

Toews suffered gunshot wounds to his head as a result of the shooting. While he was on the stand, the court displayed the picture of his head wound from the hospital that night. Dr. Lynne Fenton took the witness stand today, visibly shaking as she recounted her seven psychiatric appointments...

Another One Bites the Dust: Tale of Juror #901

June 15, 2015

We started with 24 jurors. We now have 20. Of 19 original women, four have been excused. (Why all women?) There are still five men. It鈥檚 strange to look at the three rows of seats and see empty grey chairs. This latest juror, number 901, is a graduate student in...

Aurora theater shooter bought weapons hours after failing big exam

June 15, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 He said only fools would blame his murders on bad grades. 鈥淢ost fools will misinterpret correlation for causation, namely relationship and work failure as causes,鈥 Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wrote in his infamous spiral notebok. But Monday鈥檚 court proceedings indicated otherwise. The prosecution screened surveillance footage...

Read: Shooter鈥檚 Gmail chats with ex-girlfriend go from awkward to evil

June 15, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. 鈥 At first, the Gmail chats between Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and his then-girlfriend Gargi Datta were innocuous enough. Starting in October 2012, the pair flirtatiously chatted about gaming, school and lab rotations. Their typed conversations, full of pop culture references, are peppered with emoticons and sexual...

Juror Problems: Judge Samour bounces three women from jury

June 12, 2015

We鈥檙e down to 21 out of an original 24 jurors. In a move that delayed the trial a day, three of the 19 women on the panel were kicked off the Batman movie theater shooting trial last week. I think it鈥檚 a good thing. One of them, a mother of...

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