Posted on 07/23/2012 2:07:54 PM PDT by Ron C.
The man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at the opening of the new Batman movie appeared Monday in court for the first time.
James Holmes, 24, who is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others inside a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colo., will be formally charged next Monday. He is being held without bond.
Holmes, who did not speak, sat in a maroon jailhouse jumpsuit as the judge advised him of the case. He appeared wide-eyed with bright reddish orange hair.
Holmes has been held in solitary confinement at an Arapahoe County detention facility since Friday. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and he could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations.
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I was at the Doctor’s office this morning and saw him getting arraigned on TV. From my perspective he had the look of someone who was stunned that this was happening. I don’t think he planned on going to jail at all. He just chickened out once he saw what a bullet riddled body looked like and didn’t want that to happen to him.
In a few years, we will be reading stories about women writing to him and proposing marriage.
“Colorado shooting suspect appears in court, while prosecutors consider death penalty”
Let me get this straight…
Someone shoots 70 people, kills 12 of them, and the prosecutors “consider” whether the case warrants capital punishment?
Considers?
To me, this is more indicative of how depraved our society and legal system has become, than the despicable actions of the lunatic himself….
I’d say put him down, but:
1. some say it would be difficult for a kid to get his hands on all the weapons he had. He may have had access to a lab on campus, but even so...
2. consider the history of this administration—Fast and Furious especially— and consider ‘bam’s interest in drone assassinations.
3. Finally, there’s Bill Ayer’s history and current association with OWS.
I think it was a mistake to put down Timothy McVeigh; maybe a few years in a cell might have changed his mind about cooperating with investigations.
I predict he will plead insanity and will not face the death penalty.
Looks to me like he is going for the Ronald McDonald defense.
Well...
There was that small issue
of the explosives in his apartment.
If he'd been killed,
then the cops would not have been told
about the booby traps
God Knows how many more people
would have been killed or maimed
I've heard it argued that he is psychotic
I doubt that, in that the planning and execution
of this mayhem required a high degree of
organizational skills and initiative
Psychotic persons can't maintain Cognitive Organization
More likely he is just plain Evil
Did anyone try to prove or disprove McVeigh’s claim that he had been implanted with a chip?
The mother of Holmes is now saying the media got it wrong about her comment. Not surprised. I thought it sounded weird.
You have the right person was in response to whether she was his Mother.
There is also a lot of mixed messages right now in the research on his father. The name is common so you have to sort through his history.
He’s faking it!
I suspect you’re right. The thing that stands out is how quickly his mother identified him as the monster. The other thing is how he dropped out of the highly advanced, high pressure PHD honors program just after his orals. I suspect he had a well hidden, advancing mental illness that his family knew about and concealed, hoping it would get better. Horribly, tragically, it got worse, far worse. I also suspect there will be may years of litigation and no death sentence that’s ever executed.
Someone wanted the patsy to look like this.
That's evidently not exactly what happened.
“The reason we are here is that the media has been attributing certain statements to Arlene Holmes and taking her comments out of context,” lawyer Lisa Damiani said.
In the statement read Monday by Damiani, Arlene Holmes clarified that she had been awoken by a reporter at 5:45 a.m. on Friday, and asked if she knew anything about a shooting in Aurora. Holmes said she did not, and Arlene Holmes said the reporter asked if she was Arlene Holmes and if her son was James Holmes.
In the written statement, Arlene Holmes says that is when she responded with, “Yes, you have the right person,” referring to herself. Arlene Holmes said the reporter asked for a comment about the shooting in Aurora, but that she could not comment until she knew learned more, and if the person involved was in fact her son.
Mother of Shooting Suspect Clarifies ‘You Have The Right Person’ Comment
My guess is the court will order a psych exam (pretty standard in these kinds of cases) and then we'll see what the experts say. Again, just a layman's option, but based on those pictures it sure looks like there is a very lost personality in there somewhere (not that it excuses mass killing).
option—>opinion (hit the POST button too fast)
Sounds like, as usual, TERRIBLE journalism. Well, what passes for journalism.
I learned all about that in elementary school (back in the mid ‘60’s) when some reporter from the local paper came to interview some 1st graders on their very 1st day of school and I was one of the kids that got chosen. When we got late edition of the paper that evening, not only did I find out the reporter totally misquoted me, but the picture they published of me was terrible, it made it look like I was picking my nose – which I wasn’t, I was scratching an itch or brushing some hair back, I don’t remember. Anyway I never trusted the press after that.
Historically, many geniuses are freaking nutballs.
The guy probably thinks that like The Joker he will soon escape.
Is that where they strap you to a chair and make you listen to senators speechifying?
That stinks, but a good lesson to learn early.
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